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3ph3m3ra

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Registered: 2011-12-26

Posts: 10

[solved] wireless issues--cannot connect

I installed arch on my laptop yesterday (netinstall), but I can't seem to get wireless to work... I have an Intel WiFi Link 5100 wireless card, and wlan0 shows up as an interface but can't connect to anything.

running iwconfig wlan0 returns the following:

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=15 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:on

running ip addr returns this:

3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:22:fa:35:bc:da brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

can anyone help?

Last edited by 3ph3m3ra (2011-12-26 21:32:48)

noahc

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Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 23

Re: [solved] wireless issues--cannot connect

Have you followed the directions from the wiki?

It appears your interface is down.

/dev/zero

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2011-10-20

Posts: 1,247

Re: [solved] wireless issues--cannot connect

See whether the following helps:

sudo ip link set dev wlan0 up

How do you try to connect?

3ph3m3ra

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Registered: 2011-12-26

Posts: 10

Re: [solved] wireless issues--cannot connect

never mind--I forgot to set up networkmanager. thanks, though!!