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Yoyoboy

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Registered: 2008-01-20

Posts: 2

Fresh Install - Wireless [Solved]

I just did a fresh install on an old Pentium II computer which doesn't have an ethernet port, so the only way I can connect to the internet is with my RT61 wireless card. However, I cannot successful connect with my wireless card so I can't use Pacman to install other packages.

Basically I have tried to following:

ifconfig wlan0 up
iwlist wlan0 scan
iwconfig essid FastFurious key 123456789

Added the following to /etc/rc.conf:

wlan_wlan0="wlan0 essid FastFurious key 123456789"
wlan0="wlan0 192.168.0.109"

In /etc/resolv.conf:

search socal.rr.com
nameserver 12.34.567.89 (I'm not showing the real DNS)

If I type in iwconfig, I can see that I'm connected but ping -c 3 www.google.com results in an unknown host message and I can't download packages with Pacman. What am I doing wrong?

Last edited by Yoyoboy (2008-01-20 07:16:54)

Yoyoboy

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Registered: 2008-01-20

Posts: 2

Re: Fresh Install - Wireless [Solved]

Nevermind, I changed some things in /etc/hosts and the network is working

Don-DiZzLe

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From: Nederland

Registered: 2007-03-31

Posts: 233

Re: Fresh Install - Wireless [Solved]

Can u tell me what changes u did to /etc/host?

I have a similar problem, see this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=47555