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I am trying to enable my wireless to work in arch. How would I go about doing this? It is an intel 3945 card, when I go to pacman to install the driver ipw3945 it is telling me it is not in the repos?
Last edited by hockeyfighter09 (2009-07-05 00:32:29)
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Hi, welcome to the forums. I have the same card, and the ipw3945 package was recently deprecated and replaced by a different one. If you run this command (you don't even need to be root):
pacman -Ss 3945
Pacman will search the database of available packages for "3945," and it will tell you that the current 3945 package is iwlwifi-3945-ucode (I had forgotten and had to search too). Get to know pacman thoroughly--you'll need this and other tricks many times.
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Hi, welcome to the forums. I have the same card, and the ipw3945 package was recently deprecated and replaced by a different one. If you run this command (you don't even need to be root):
pacman -Ss 3945
Pacman will search the database of available packages for "3945," and it will tell you that the current 3945 package is iwlwifi-3945-ucode (I had forgotten and had to search too). Get to know pacman thoroughly--you'll need this and other tricks many times.
Thanks so much for the reply. I did some searching around and found the package you mentioned. I have it installed and wireless is working perfectly now. Thanks alot!
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