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Muzikants

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Registered: 2012-07-28

Posts: 1

Wireless Setup

From ArchWiki:

If you have only wireless internet available

The wireless_tools package is now available as part of the base system and is also on the live installation media (CD/USB stick image) under the base-devel category.

You cannot initialize wireless hardware without these user-space tools, so ensure they are installed from the installer media, (during package selection), especially if you have no means of networking other than wirelessly. Otherwise, you will be stuck in a recursion when you reboot your newly installed Arch Linux system: you will need wireless_tools and drivers, but in order to get them, you will need wireless_tools and drivers.

Does that mean the package is already installed and I can skip this ?

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,692

Re: Wireless Setup

What is the output of pacman -Qi wireless_tools  ?

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Strike0

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-09-05

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Re: Wireless Setup

For the new 2012 installation media, it is only installed if you selected base_devel earlier with pacstrap: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … ase_system

Your quote is from the wireless-wiki and was partly deprecated as there is no other package selection screens anymore.
Better keep to the updated Beginners Guide for a fresh install.

edit: wording.

Last edited by Strike0 (2012-07-28 22:18:10)