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#1 2009-04-12 05:16:30

falconed
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Registered: 2009-04-12
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Installing Arch on my Toshiba Satellite M70 - NEWBIE

Hey everyone, I'm a complete noob to Archlinux. I have used Ubuntu and have had that running for a while. I've read good things about arch and have installed it on my M70 notebook.

The installation went fine except for two things:
1) My timezone failed when booting into linux. I'm not sure why but after I set the clock, the rc.conf didnt update it to match my timezone (Australia/Brisbane).

2) My network connection failed. This is where I'm really confused as I really don't now where to start. I'm not sure how I can find the name of wireless card for the laptop and how to setup DHCP and put in my WPA password.

I am wanting to install GNOME aswell, however, I need my connection working to install this.

Any help would be great!

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#2 2009-04-12 05:52:04

falconed
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Registered: 2009-04-12
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Re: Installing Arch on my Toshiba Satellite M70 - NEWBIE

I just came across this:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wif … d_Firmware

So judging by this I typed in:

# lspci | grep -i net

And the output is:

6.02.0 Network Controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915AGB [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)

I then get up to:

# iwconfig

Output:

lo      no wireless extensions

eth0   no wireless extensions

So I'm not sure what to do.

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#3 2009-04-12 08:17:58

falconed
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Registered: 2009-04-12
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Re: Installing Arch on my Toshiba Satellite M70 - NEWBIE

Okay I've managed to get the connection up now. However, I hit another problem when updating the databases.

# pacman -Syu
# pacman -Syy

I typed in the first one and it updates the required packages fine.
When I run -Syy i get the following problem:

:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed to update core (unexpected error)
error: failed to update extra (unexpected error)
error: failed to update community (unexpected error)
error: failed to synchronize any databases

Any idea about what's wrong?

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#4 2009-04-12 09:35:49

MoonSwan
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From: Great White North
Registered: 2008-01-23
Posts: 881

Re: Installing Arch on my Toshiba Satellite M70 - NEWBIE

Check your mirrorlist file in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist has 1 uncommented server.  Try upgrading again.  By default your mirrorlist file will nowadays be all commented out so you only need to uncomment 1 line.  Up until recently, the behaviour was the opposite.

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