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How forced Atheros wifi card for work ? at fresh installation ?

hi
so my arch after 5 yares crashed and i have no chice i need installa new and fresh. but problem is i need internet connection at installation, but i dont have fisicly acces to router to connect cable. i have install Atheros AR 5600 card, but i try start up and no work. i read official guide https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … e#Wireless i read sub page but its not possible because i need extra package but i cant download anyway... so my question is, can i run atheros card and configure connection from boot live CD ?? without access to internet ??

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Re: How forced Atheros wifi card for work ? at fresh installation ?

iwconfig

To see if your card is detected, note that the names of network interfaces are no longer wlan0, wlan1,etc.

if it is detected do : wifi-menu name_of_card

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Re: How forced Atheros wifi card for work ? at fresh installation ?

if iwconfig doesn`t detect your card then arch desn`t support it out-of-box and you need to check if there is any driver, note that some cards may no be supported by linux yet, expecially if new