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I followed the instructions for setting up a wireless connection found on the wiki, but my attempts have been unsuccessful.
I have an Everex Stepnote NC1500 laptop, which has the Atheros AR5005G wireless chipset. I'm new to Archlinux but not to Linux in general. Any help would be greatly appreciated, as I'm stuck with the base system at the moment.
Below is the command line input and output from my computer when I tried to set up the wifi.
Thanks to everyone in advance!
# hwdetect --show-net
NET : mii via-rhine mac80211 ath5k cfg80211
# lsmod | grep ath5k
ath5k 92292 0
mac80211 130316 1 ath5k
# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit: 7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
# ifconfig wlan0 up
# iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 No scan results
# iwconfig wlan0 essid linksys key **********
# dhcpcd wlan0
err, wlan0: timed out
warn, wlan0: using IPV4LL address 169.254.133.213
# ping -c 3 www.google.com
ping: unknown host www.google.com
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After entering the essid etc, are you associated with the access point?
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After entering that info, iwconfig returns this:
#iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"linksys"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit: 7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Encryption key:****-****-**
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
So it seems to have accepted the values but still won't connect. And I've read many reports of the wifi being turned off manually by a button on the laptop; I've checked that and the light indicates it's on. Turning it off by that button doesn't change any of the output.
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How is your accesspoint configured? The
# iwlist scan
didn't return much, are you hiding SSID?
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No, I'm not hiding SSID; I checked that setting early on.
Here's the output again:
# iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wmaster0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wlan0 No scan results
#
When I've accessed my network on other systems, it is the only one within range. But no results are found by iwlist...I just had this working on Xubuntu on the same system a couple days ago; albeit that was automatically configured.
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"wavemon" is a fantastic utility for checking signal strength and the like.
yaourt -S wavemon
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Check whether your network is wep or wpa. The basic commands like that only work for wep.
Also try doing
ifconfig ath0 up
iwlist ath0 scan
before doing the association commands.
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I had a similar problem, though in my case with Intel 3945 card. After much experimentation, I found that running iwconfig with my router's Lan port MAC address made it work. IE,
iwconfig wlan0 ap XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
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It is WEP, although turning off the encryption doesn't change anything for me. Running iwconfig with my router's MAC address didn't seem to help either. At this point I'm rather confused and frustrated...I love the idea of Arch Linux but I just can't seem to get it to work...
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Try netcfg. See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg
In my case (using WPA) I had to, after running iwconfig with my router's Lan MAC port address, set
scan=no
in the copied profile file.
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