Setup basics?

brownstoo · 2008-03-09 21:04:40

I've always wanted to setup Arch on my laptop because I've heard so many good reviews, I like the "Arch way", I want an OS that has what I need and nothing else. I even like the Arch site. So I set it up on virtualbox. (ill set it up on my laptop later because I need my laptop for uni).Now I'm trying to setup my wireless network so pacman can do the rest. How do I go about this? ifconfig states that eth0 and lo are the only interfaces available. How do I get Arch to recognize my wireless adapter? and then I did read the arch setup guide, but didn't really get most of it. anyway anyone want to help? thanks in advance.

finferflu · 2008-03-09 21:09:44

You have read the Arch setup guide, but did you read the Beginner's Guide? That's quite exhaustive.

dyscoria · 2008-03-09 21:26:47

Is your question for the arch install you have within Virtualbox?

I don't use virtualbox, but its based on qemu which I use so i'm sure it works in a similar way. The virtual machine won't be able to use your wireless network, but instead has an ethernet connection to your host OS. All internet activity first goes through the host, then gets passed onto the guest OS. If wireless is working in your host then your virtual arch should be able to get internet access.

I don't know if virtualbox has internet enabled by default (qemu does). Are you sure it isn't working already?

brownstoo · 2008-03-10 01:36:23

pacman says it isn't, and pinging stuff doesn't either so I'm assuming it doesn't. Yes, Pretty much all my work is on this laptop so I don't want to start setting up arch, then not be able to finish setting up, or get something wrong and wipe my whole hdd or soemthing so virtualbox it is for now. so essentially virtual box won't support wireless because its only connecting to the host yes?

dyscoria · 2008-03-10 02:13:44

brownstoo wrote:

so essentially virtual box won't support wireless because its only connecting to the host yes?

Well unless virtualbox has something weird going on, no virtual environment has direct access to networking hardware. If the host has internet access through whatever means, then the guest has internet access through the host. It should act just like a any other program that you run normally (e.g. a bittorrent client). This problem is most probably related to settings in virtualbox rather than your wireless. Your install of arch shouldn't even need to think about the real wireless hardware you have on your host.

brownstoo · 2008-03-10 06:00:36

makes sense. yeah well since wireless works for everything else it should be either virtualbox settings or arch settings. I would still have to configure arch to the virtualbox settings right?

dyscoria · 2008-03-10 10:44:58

brownstoo wrote:

I would still have to configure arch to the virtualbox settings right?

Yeah. I would assume virtualbox has a virtual eth0 interface. When I was using a virtual Arch in qemu, internet was working pretty much out of the box, with one change. qemu assigns an ip through dhcp, so edit one line in /etc/rc.conf to read:

eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(eth0)

Make sure 'network' is in your DAEMONS line and you should be sorted after a restart.

Last edited by dyscoria (2008-03-10 10:46:07)

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