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Phixion

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Registered: 2006-08-03

Posts: 13

Wireless Issue

OK I'm trying to get Arch up and running on my Laptop which has an Intel 2100 Wireless card. I'm following the wiki (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wir … stallation) but can't seem to get it working.

Any help would be appreciated here.

Cheers

Last edited by Phixion (2008-06-27 22:25:44)

kclive18

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From: Columbus, Ohio, USA

Registered: 2008-05-08

Posts: 219

Re: Wireless Issue

For your card, you just have to install the ipw2100-fw firmware.

http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/#issues

The "Firmware fails to load even if installed" section may help you there.

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Phixion

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Registered: 2006-08-03

Posts: 13

Re: Wireless Issue

I think it's something I'm failing to do rather than the hardware itself.

Here's the info from my rc.conf:

wlan_eth1="eth1 essid OWEN key <key here>"
INTERFACES=(eth0 eth1)

My wireless interface is 'eth1'. Can you see anything wrong here? I can scan for networks in my area but can't seem to connect to any.

nj

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Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 93

Re: Wireless Issue

You need a line to tell it to use dhcp to acquire a network address.

eth1="dhcp"

Phixion

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Registered: 2006-08-03

Posts: 13

Re: Wireless Issue

I've now added that but still getting the same issue. When starting Network on boot it brings up "lo" and then a few seconds later "err, eth1 timed out, warn, eth1 using IPV4LL address 169.254.53.199".

Last edited by Phixion (2008-06-28 00:23:19)

Aprz

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From: Newark

Registered: 2008-05-28

Posts: 277

Re: Wireless Issue

Trying using Wicd. I had the same problem earlier this week with my Broadcom 4311. Make sure you have dbus in your list of daemons too.

Last edited by Aprz (2008-06-28 01:22:37)

nj

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Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 93

Re: Wireless Issue

Try 'dhcpd -kill eth1 && dhcpd -d eth1'. The -d will show debug info.

Post 'dmesg | grep ipw'

The key you are using is a wep key. Make sure you are using wep and not wpa.

Phixion

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Registered: 2006-08-03

Posts: 13

Re: Wireless Issue

I didn't manage to fix this so decided to buy a network cable instead...