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Hi guys,
I have been in the process of installing Arch Linux for the first time and I can get everything but the WiFi set up. I have been following the beginners guide, I've set up the Ethernet just fine but I cannot seem to get the WiFi up and running.
lspci | grep -i net
produces:
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM57765 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)
02:00.1 SD Host controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM57765 Memory Card Reader (rev 10)
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 02)
iwconfig
produces:
enp2s0f0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
wifi-menu
produces:
> No such interface: wlan0
I've installed (or think I've installed) wireless_tools, wpa_supplicant, and wpa_actiond
I've tried to install the b43 firmware that corresponds to my device but I don't how well that worked.
Thank you so much if you need anything else please let me know
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After installing b43-firmware you have to reboot.Then run 'iwconfig' and wlan0 (or whatever name it is) should show up.
EDIT:If you want to use netcfg you should install dialog.
Last edited by 10PinkPanther (2013-03-19 00:55:44)
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I've installed b43-firmware, rebooted, and and checked iwconfig and the same thing came up. I forgot to mention that I have installed dialog.
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Is there anything else I need to do to install b43-firmware other than just going into the folder and typing
makepkg
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Is there anything else I need to do to install b43-firmware other than just going into the folder and typing
makepkg
Yes, you have to install the package
sudo pacman -U foo.tar.xz
Go have a look at the AUR wiki when you have time to get familiar with the process
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Is there anything else I need to do to install b43-firmware other than just going into the folder and typing
makepkg
Only if you want to install the package once it is built...
man makepkg
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Now I'm getting
sudo pacman -U b43-firmware.tar.gz
produces:
loading packages...
error: missing package metadata in b43-firmware.tar.gz
error: 'b43-firmware.tar.gz': invalid or corrupted package
should I be doing something before or after this
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Now I'm getting
sudo pacman -U b43-firmware.tar.gz
produces:
loading packages... error: missing package metadata in b43-firmware.tar.gz error: 'b43-firmware.tar.gz': invalid or corrupted package
should I be doing something before or after this
Wrong file, its not the .gz file but the .xz file
the full procedure is:
tar -xvzf b43-firmware.tar.gz
cd b43-firmware
makepkg -s
sudo pacman -U b43-firmware.tar.xz
reboot
Last edited by s1ln7m4s7r (2013-03-19 02:55:39)
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Where's that file? Or do I make it?
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You told it to install the source Look in that directory for something that starts with 'b43-firmware' and ends with '.pkg.tar.xz' and use pacman to install that file with the -U
Edit: BTW, that file (the package file) is the resultant output of a successful makepkg
Last edited by ewaller (2013-03-19 02:43:42)
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Where's that file? Or do I make it?
You already made it with
makepkg
use the
ls
command to check the contents of your folders..
All this is very well documented now, head over to the wiki or use the forums search functions. These are very basic tasks that have massive amounts of documentation already.
Also, please read up on Help Vampirism --> http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/
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Ok so I installed that file and restarted and wifi-menu wlp3s0 now gives me what I'm looking for but now it won't connect to any of the networks is there anything I missed?
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> WPA Authentication/Association Failed
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As a sanity check (and to ensure things are really functioning), what is the output of iw wlp3s0 scan when run as root.
Please verify you have wpa_supplicant installed.
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I'm getting that iw doesn't exist
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Install these extra pakages:
pacman -S wireless_tools wpa_supplicant
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So I've installed it and its outputting a list of all of the nearby networks and they appear to be correct. Now I'm looking at how to connect manually using iwconfig.
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Try
sudo wifi-menu
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I've ran
sudo wifi-menu wlp3s0
and it runs fine but gives me a message at the end saying that it failed to connect. I've been trying to connect to an unsecured network
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Try stopping dhcp first
sudo systemctl stop dhcpcd
sudo wifi-menu
EDIT: Try writing your own profile for netcfg. Here's the wiki page https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg
The example configs are in /etc/network.d/examples
I'm guessing you would use the wireless-open as your example.
Then try connecting using netcfg
netcfg <your_network>
Last edited by Kopkins (2013-03-19 20:18:51)
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I'll try that. I have awesome and gnome set up why?
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Didn't work :-( same message.
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Just curious. I had an arch install a few weeks ago that wouldn't connect by any method other than WICD. But only if no other network managers were running.
I had to stop NetworkManager netcfg and dhcpcd and then run wicd to connect.
Thread is here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=158863
look at my above post again too.
Best of luck
Last edited by Kopkins (2013-03-19 20:21:39)
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I would like to test wicd to see if it works but i can't install it with pacman its giving me the error
error: rfkill: signature from "Gaetan Bisson <gaetan.bisson@normalesup.org>" is invalid
error: failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
I've done everything that any other forum post has specified including setting every
SigLevel = TrustAll
then updating pacman with
sudo pacman -Syyu
and I've ran
sudo pacman-key --init --populate archlinux
I also tried downloading it from the AUR site and installing it from the PGKBUILD
Any pointers?
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