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Thompz

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Registered: 2008-02-10

Posts: 31

Cant get wireless to work

Ive tried a lot of different things here but still no luck

My card is an rt61pci and I have installed wireless_tools and done modprobe rt61pci

I have edited rc.conf so the network section reads:

wlan_wlan0="wlan0 essid .EXAMPLE key open s:CODE"
wlan0="wlan0" (also tried dhcp, what doeas that mean anyway?)
INTERFACES (wlan0) (what does lo mean because that was in there too)
WLAN_INTERFACES=(wlan0)

iwlist wlan0 scan gives me all the wireless networks and I can see the one I wan
also lspci lists my pci wireless card as rt61.

Dont know what else to try

twhayes

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Registered: 2007-10-09

Posts: 27

Re: Cant get wireless to work

post results of iwconfig and ifconfig

tomk

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Re: Cant get wireless to work

you need either wlan0="dhcp" for dhcp or wlan0="<the example given in rc.conf>" for static IP address. wlan0="wlan0" does nothing.

Misfit138

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Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: Cant get wireless to work

Ive tried a lot of different things here but still no luck

My card is an rt61pci and I have installed wireless_tools and done modprobe rt61pci

I have edited rc.conf so the network section reads:

wlan_wlan0="wlan0 essid .EXAMPLE key open s:CODE"
wlan0="wlan0" (also tried dhcp, what doeas that mean anyway?)
INTERFACES (wlan0) (what does lo mean because that was in there too)
WLAN_INTERFACES=(wlan0)

iwlist wlan0 scan gives me all the wireless networks and I can see the one I wan
also lspci lists my pci wireless card as rt61.

Dont know what else to try

Did you see this wiki page? http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/RT61_Wireless
Also, putting your wireless settings in /etc/rc.conf is fine, because it is sourced by /etc/rc.d/network, but your settings look a little messed up. Do you have WEP, WPA, or no encryption?
The following is from the wiki. It covers no encryption and WEP:

wlan_wlan0='wlan0 essid <youressid>' #no encryption
wlan_wlan0='wlan0 essid <youressid> key open s:<yourWEPkey>' #WEP encryption
wlan0=('dhcp')
INTERFACES=(wlan0 lo) #among other interfaces

If you have an up-to-date system, you may safely remove the loopback interface (lo) from /etc/rc.conf. Loopback is no longer necessary to define in rc.conf, as it is now incorporated in the init scripts.
If you are using WPA, someone else will have to help, as I have no experience with WPA yet.

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Sauengard

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From: UK

Registered: 2006-09-26

Posts: 46

Re: Cant get wireless to work

I personally use my wifi card drivers and NETWORKMANAGER.  With GNOME and the networkmanager applet, it works perfectly.

I assume that you are trying to connect to the network prior to starting your DM/DE.  In that case, then you need to follow the  wiki more carefully.

DHCP is Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.  This basically means that you are telling your router (or network DNS) to give you an IP address every time that you connect to the network.  The opposite is a static IP address which means that you have the same IP address every time you connect.

Like the others say, you need to post the results here so that we can assist you further.

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Thompz

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Registered: 2008-02-10

Posts: 31

Re: Cant get wireless to work

Ok Im using WPA and have been to the rt61 site but didnt really help.

This is everythign I can think of to post:

/etc/rc.conf
lo = "lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0="dhcp"
wlan0="wlan0"
wlan_wlan0="wlan0 essid ...... key open s:....."
WLAN_INTERFACES=(wlan0)
INTERFACES=(lo eth0 wlan0)

ifconfig
eth0
Link encap: Ethernet Hwaddr 00:E6:8C:7A:02
inet addr:169.254.247.188 Bcast 139.254.255.255 Mask 255.255.0.0
UP BREADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metirc:1
RX packets 0  errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collision:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0b) TX bytes:0 (0.0b)
Interupt:16

lo
Link encap: Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask 255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU 16436 METRIC:1
RX packets 0  errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collision:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0b) TX bytes:0 (0.0b)

iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions
wmaster0 no wireless extensions
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID: "......"
Mode: Managed Channel:0 Access Point:Not-Associated
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr 2346 B
Encryption key:4444-3044-4545-3131-3637
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
RX invalid nwid:0 RXinvalid crypt:0 RX invalid frag:0
TX excessive retries:0 Invalid mics:0 Missed beacon:0

Think thats everythng

Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: Cant get wireless to work

As was stated, your wlan0= line is wrong. See above.
You will also need wpa_supplicant for WPA, but I have no experience with that.

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Thompz

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Registered: 2008-02-10

Posts: 31

Re: Cant get wireless to work

Ok - changed to wlan0="dhcp" and wlan0="BeBox" - neither of these worked

Certain my wireless is WPA too.  Is wpa suppliment supplied with the install cd because I have no way of getitng it otherwise :S

bgc1954

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From: Edmonton, AB, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-14

Posts: 1,160

Re: Cant get wireless to work

Wpa_supplicant can be a real pain but if you follow the wiki at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ndi … supplicant you should be able to get going.  If you don't get wpa_supplicant working, it doesn't matter what any of your settings are as your computer and router can't talk to each other.  You might want to try setting up your router to not use any encryption for a short time just to see if you can actually communicate between the router and computer.

Last edited by bgc1954 (2008-02-14 16:46:33)

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underpenguin

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Registered: 2007-02-01

Posts: 116

Re: Cant get wireless to work

Manually configuring networks is a hassle. Use netcfg2. It is simple and clean. I love it.

Thompz

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Registered: 2008-02-10

Posts: 31

Re: Cant get wireless to work

Ok - did some wpa_supplicant stuff and followed the wiki but still no luck.  how can I use netcfg2 without being able to use the internet?

Thompz

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Registered: 2008-02-10

Posts: 31

Re: Cant get wireless to work

Manually configuring networks is a hassle. Use netcfg2. It is simple and clean. I love it.

Would love to use this but can download it without the internet

Im still not having any luck and have spent all day on this.  Seriously thinking of ditchin my attemp at arch.

Dont know what else to try

Is it possible to make an install disk that has something like netcfg2 on already?

Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: Cant get wireless to work

Do you have an ethernet connection we can configure first, to at least get you on the web?

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Thompz

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Registered: 2008-02-10

Posts: 31

Re: Cant get wireless to work

Ok - I managed to drag my computer to my modem for ethernet - just reached

In arch now, trying to get netcfg but when I type pacman -S netcfg I get nothing.  Even with testing/unstable allowed in pacman.conf

Also, when I try and wget the .tar.gz I get and error too, saying not found in sync db

Finally, whenever I run pacman I get:
error: config file/etc/pacman.g/mirrorlist, lin 7: directive 'Server not recognized

Thompz

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Registered: 2008-02-10

Posts: 31

Re: Cant get wireless to work

Ok - done it manually but still no idea about the error with server not recognized

ConnorBehan

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Registered: 2007-07-05

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Re: Cant get wireless to work

Did it say pacman.g or pacman.d? Better make sure the name of the directory referred to in /etc/pacman.conf is the one that actually exists. Go into mirrorlist and try commenting out certain mirrors until you find one that works.  They should all work. The error "not found in sync db" even when the package exists, happens because you need to sync with the mirror using pacman -Sy. Having an up to date system is also good, so do pacman -Syu if you still have trouble.

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