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timinperth

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Registered: 2007-12-10

Posts: 2

Recognizing wireless cards

New user to linux here trying to setup my wireless card. The card is D-link airplus DWL-G650+ laptop card. I checked out http://linux-wless.passys.nl/ and it should be supported by the madwifi generic drivers. I've installed them and wireless_tools using pacman directed at a mounted arch linux cd and the installation was a success. I have configured both /etc/rc.conf and /etc/conf.d/wireless according to part 2 of the wireless tutorial found on your wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup.

When i type ifconfig nothing happens (the command prompt just goes to a new line), when i type iwconfig the following is displayed:
lo        no wireless extensions.
irda0    no wireless extensions.

The laptop hasn't even picking up the card at all (the card has two lights which neither are light) so if anyone could provide some assistance it would be very useful. This is my first day using linux so if you could explain everything in idiot speak it would be appreciated. Also i was wondering where i am meant to input my wireless network name as it is not asked for in either of those config files.

regards

tim

Last edited by timinperth (2007-12-10 08:35:14)

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: Recognizing wireless cards

Welcome to the forums & Arch!

The drivers you got off the CD probably don't match the kernel you're currently running, so it'd be better to do a pacman -Syu and get the latest drivers and kernel.

After that, you'll find it easier to configure wireless with netcfg2 (the new arch method of wireless), rather than the methods on that wikipage http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=39505

Good luck!

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Recognizing wireless cards

Also run  lspci | egrep "Network|Ethernet"  on the command line, to be sure you have an Atheros (madwifi) card. You can't rely on hardware vendors to always ship a certain model with the same chipsets.

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timinperth

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Registered: 2007-12-10

Posts: 2

Re: Recognizing wireless cards

i'll give that new method a try but the problem is the laptop doesn't have internet access so i am unable to get the latest drivers.

I put in that command and it returned:
Network controller: Texas Instruments ACX 111 54MPs wireless Interface.

Ok i see in http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup they walk through how install the ax111 drivers. I'm stuck at step 4 which is:

4) Execute:

make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd`

when i try and do this i get an error saying make:*** /lib/modules/uname -r/build: No such file or directory. Stop.

any help?

Last edited by timinperth (2007-12-10 09:53:06)

B15HOP

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From: Australia

Registered: 2005-02-10

Posts: 138

Re: Recognizing wireless cards

hey man wassup! Yeah you can't do pacman because you don't have any network.... which you know already and netcfg2 is part of extra which isn't on the cd i guess so yeah, might have to download it some other way?

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byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Recognizing wireless cards

The part on ACX in the wiki is nonsense. There is a package here. Sadly it's not available in the install cd environment.

Last edited by byte (2007-12-10 15:26:22)

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Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: Recognizing wireless cards

The DWL-G650 revision B Airplus Xtreme-G is definitely atheros-based and uses Mad-wifi, but as for the G650+, I guess you'll have to get the drivers onto a usb stick using another machine, and build them on the laptop.

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