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mspn

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Registered: 2011-11-05

Posts: 3

[solved] xfce-wavelan-plugin

Hi All,

I have recently installed ArchLinux and have been experimenting ever since. I have my wifi set up through netcfg which uses multiple profiles so I can connect wherever I am. I have also settled with XFCE desktop environment, and am happy so far but I have a tendancy to swap and change a lot.

The on issue I have is when attempting to use the wavelan plugin in XFCE. As soon as I add it to the panel it crashes and in tty1 I get:

sh: /sbin/ifconfig: No such file or directory

I know that net-tools has been deprecated, is there anyway round this?

I tried searching for this issue by googling and on the forum/wiki. Apologies if it has been already solved!

Thanks,

Matt.

Last edited by mspn (2012-01-17 20:29:27)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [solved] xfce-wavelan-plugin

You still can install it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FA … is_X_in.3F

jon

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Registered: 2002-11-28

Posts: 87

Re: [solved] xfce-wavelan-plugin

I guess net-tools is technically depreciated, but I'm used to it and it seems to work fine.

In the interest of the most simple & elegant solution, how about

 pacman -S net-tools

However, (and I run XFCE too), I recommend NetworkManager & network-manager-applet for WiFi as it makes dealing with encrypted networks much easier.

mspn

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Registered: 2011-11-05

Posts: 3

Re: [solved] xfce-wavelan-plugin

Cheers karol, much appreciated. Still getting used to the littler things like AUR and the amount of updates. Last distro was Debian!!