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Hi. I've installed Arch on my Toshiba A300-1GT laptop, and managed to get everything working (sound, touchpad, mouse etc.), everything except wireless. I am following the guide at the wiki, and when i type ifconfig, eth0, wlan0 and lo are shown, that part is ok. But, when I try to scan for connections, it says that it doesn't find any results. The wifi switch is on.
Wireless card is Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100.
P.S.:how can i copy output from terminal (xterm)?
Last edited by Wyrm88 (2010-05-10 13:21:16)
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I found this link, I think it might be a solution. I tried enabling "wifi on"in BIOS but no changes. I'm trying (according to the posted link) activate wifi over the keyboard, but that is a fnfx key. I've found a suitable package on aur, and was able to make a .pkg.tar.gz file, but the odd thing is that it isn't in the ~/builds folder at all :S. The process in the terminal states that the file was created succesfully.
Would appreciate any feedback, thx.
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for the wifi problem, try rfkill (soft/un/blocking wlan hardware)
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for the wifi problem, try rfkill (soft/un/blocking wlan hardware)
Hm, not quite sure about what I have to do... I installed it, ran it, when I switch off manually the wifi, the soft blocked line says "no", the hardware one "yes". After I switch it on both are "no".
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ah sorry, my bad. rfkill can't unblock hardlock so it won't do any good in your case. I had a similar problem, but it was soft locked on boot.
the package must be in the folder you run makepkg from.
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I managed to install fnfx (yaourt this time) but no still no progress. Actually that also probably wouldn't help because it's not soft blocked .
Here's some output:
[nbabic@Arch_nbabic ~]$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1E:33:5A:36:2B
inet addr:192.168.1.84 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21e:33ff:fe5a:362b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:387 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:418 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:167678 (163.7 Kb) TX bytes:76397 (74.6 Kb)
Interrupt:29 Base address:0x6000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:100 (100.0 b) TX bytes:100 (100.0 b)
[nbabic@Arch_nbabic ~]$ sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
Password:
[nbabic@Arch_nbabic ~]$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1E:33:5A:36:2B
inet addr:192.168.1.84 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21e:33ff:fe5a:362b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:397 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:420 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:168318 (164.3 Kb) TX bytes:76481 (74.6 Kb)
Interrupt:29 Base address:0x6000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:100 (100.0 b) TX bytes:100 (100.0 b)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:EA:C9:0F:C0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
[nbabic@Arch_nbabic ~]$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
[nbabic@Arch_nbabic ~]$ iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 No scan results
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Solved it, simply installed wicd and manually set the ESSID and passphrase. Funny, all the networks in the vicinity are shown in the wicd client, but not by iwlist.
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