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ihavenoidea

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Registered: 2007-02-23

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installing arch, wireless

Ok so I know the first thing after i install arch i will need internet, and my only connection is a linksys wmp54gs wireless card which uses the bcmwl5 driver with ndiswrapper. What should i do/download beforehand so i can get this working before i go ahead and install arch.

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Re: installing arch, wireless

You've been hanging around those forums for a year and you don't know?

Obviously your drivers, and a supplicant if necessary.

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ihavenoidea

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Registered: 2007-02-23

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Re: installing arch, wireless

well i tried arch last year and the problem was that it didnt come with everything i needed to get wireless to work, and i was tired of switching back and forth to windows to get everything so i switched to ubuntu which worked perfectly OOBl. Guess ill just try it when it downloads.

Is there a better way, using the bcm43XX mod or ndiswrapper?

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Re: installing arch, wireless

Native driver is always recommended, if it doesn't work, pick ndiswrapper. If you like Ubuntu, why not stick with it?

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pyther

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Re: installing arch, wireless

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless

You might want to give the b43 driver a try as it seems like they support  more device than ndiswrapper.

Also I suggest that you have your computer pluged into a wired connection while you are download the packages to make wireless work, this will save you much time!

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tomk

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Re: installing arch, wireless

All packages required for wireless configuration are included on recent ISOs - no additional downloads are necessary. The 2008.04-rc ISO is recommended, details here.

carlocci

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From: Padova - Italy

Registered: 2008-02-12

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Re: installing arch, wireless

Do the installation images include the base-devel group, in case I need to build the driver?
Is there a package list available somewhere?

Thanks

Last edited by carlocci (2008-05-12 11:08:54)

tomk

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Re: installing arch, wireless

The install isos provide everything in the core repo, so that covers all of base-devel.