Wireless troubles with FTP Install

Dethredic · 2009-07-16 03:43:28

I am in the live CD and I am having a problem with my wireless. I have never used wireless (at all) before so forgive me if I sound blunt (apparently my wireless card works "out of the box". Intel 5300).
I followed the instructions from the beginners guide:
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid "xxxxx"
dhcpcd wlan0

That ends up timing out ("wlan0: timed out"). I just plugged in an ethernet cord and changed to eth0, which works fine, so I could install that way, but I wish to figure this out because you don't learn/get better if you take the easy way out all the time.

Last edited by Dethredic (2009-07-16 03:44:40)

tomk · 2009-07-16 07:42:32

You've read the Wireless Setup wiki page, I presume?

.:B:. · 2009-07-16 11:38:28

There's little point in mucking around with wireless during the installation phase - especially if you haven't configured wireless connections on linux before.

Continue what you started - install over a wired connection, once you get it all up and running, read up and set up the wireless connection. As tomk suggests, you may have some further reading ahead.

Good luck.

plurt · 2009-07-16 12:16:18

it's out there in the wiki, read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … process.29

Dethredic · 2009-07-16 13:19:15

plurt wrote:

it's out there in the wiki, read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … process.29

I did that as you can see in my OP

EDIT: Ok i just installed with a wired connection and I have wireless working now.

Last edited by Dethredic (2009-07-16 14:40:36)

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