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scirious

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Registered: 2008-05-26

Posts: 3

Installing without a netwrok

Hi people,

I've been reading a lot of good reviews about ArchLinux and I'm really interested in testing it. However, I can't get my network setup and I havent managed to instal xorg or kde without it. My network is a wireless network and using a wired network isn't an option. I can get the device to be recognized, or at least I think so, but I just can't authenticate using WPA2 and get an IP. But the truth is that I would prefer to have KNetworkManager to set it up and connect. So, is there a way I can download and instal xorg and kde without a network?

TIA,
Scirious.

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,485

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Re: Installing without a netwrok

Can't you just temporarily plug you computer in to the router?  Or post your network configuration and we could help you fix it.

You can always use "pacman -Sp xorg kde knetworkmanager" which will list the urls for all the packages you need.  Got to a computer with a network connection, download them, dump them in you pacman cache (/var/cache/pacman/pkg) then run "pacman -S xorg kde knetworkmanager".  It is about 70 package to download though...

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scirious

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Registered: 2008-05-26

Posts: 3

Re: Installing without a netwrok

Hi, thank you for your support.

My network adapter is an Intel Pro 3945 abg. I have succesfully loaded the module iwlwifi-3945-ucode.

Network ESSID is "Scirious Network". I does broadcast the ESSID.
Encryption is WPA2 AES. Key is xxxxxxxx.
Channel 11.

I'm using the 64-bit version of Arch. How do I set this network? I can't plug the cable to the router.

tigrmesh

IRC Op

From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: Installing without a netwrok

See if you can install netcfg2:  http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Profiles

scirious

Member

Registered: 2008-05-26

Posts: 3

Re: Installing without a netwrok

People, just to thank you very much for your help. netcfg2 did the work.

Thank you,
Scirious.