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I haven't installed Arch yet, but I'm only a few steps away. I've been researching everything I need to do so that I can avoid encountering too many problems. One question: the Arch wiki says in order to get wireless Internet, I need to grab my wireless card's drivers, check to make sure I've got a functional interface then run
# iwconfig <interface> essid <essid> key <yourwepkey>
...but our network is protected by WPA version 1 (according to iwlist eth1 scan), not WEP. How can I get this working?
Last edited by wirenik (2008-09-05 18:15:52)
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With wpa_supplicant. There's a wiki page about that too.
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your best bet is to use netcfg2... go to /etc/network.d and look at the examples there, copy the right example to the /etc/network.d folder with an appropriate name (I usually use wireless) and then edit the details to provide the right configuration. You can then type in
netcfg2 wireless
and you have access.
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In fact here's the netcfg wiki
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*thought this would be another "how do I hack a wireless network" thread when he read the title*
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Thanks for the quick replies!
your best bet is to use netcfg2... go to /etc/network.d and look at the examples there, copy the right example to the /etc/network.d folder with an appropriate name (I usually use wireless) and then edit the details to provide the right configuration. You can then type in
netcfg2 wireless
and you have access.
Hm, this sounds promising. One (possibly stupid) question: is netcfg included on the install CD, or will I have to find wired internet so I can get it with pacman?
*thought this would be another "how do I hack a wireless network" thread when he read the title*
Hah, no. Just an innocent almost-Arch-user trying to figure out wireless.
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One other potential route is to install Arch from another distro that is already working with wireless internet, with the use of chroot. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … ting_Linux
I didn't follow that route though, I followed a guide that actually explained how to install gentoo, but the results were the same.
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One (possibly stupid) question: is netcfg included on the install CD, or will I have to find wired internet so I can get it with pacman?
Yes, netcfg is included on the newer ISOs.
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Yes, netcfg is included on the newer ISOs.
Oh yes, welcome to the forums wirenik. Enjoy your (terminal) stay.
Awesome! It sounds like I'm pretty much set to go, then. And thanks for the welcome! I'm addicted to this place already.
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if you want a graphical tool, both network-manager and wicd are in the repositories and I believe each has a wiki page
+1 for netcfg though, I use it and love it
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+1 netcfg
/me hides!
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it depends on the chipset of the wlan device sometimes; some devices don't even support WPA
for example, ralink chipsets need a binary configuration file (.dat; in order to set the parameters for the device) before attempting to connect
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it depends on the chipset of the wlan device sometimes; some devices don't even support WPA
for example, ralink chipsets need a binary configuration file (.dat; in order to set the parameters for the device) before attempting to connect
Not the chipset, but driver. A majority do. ralink is the exception, but even for that there's the rt2x00 project which does support it properly.
Last edited by iphitus (2008-09-04 06:37:42)
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Hello
Update today of Wicd... Works like a charm with WPA and WEP wifi networking
Lots of problems before this update
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As mentioned above, I think netcfg is included on the newer iso's. However, I don't think it is installed by
default, so make sure you choose to install it during the package selection part of the installation.
On a separate but related note, I can connect to a wpa2 encrypted network via netcfg but wicd just keeps trying to get the ip address
but never connects. I'm using ndiswrapper and have selected it in the wicd setup gui.
If I turn encryption off, I can connect via wicd.
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Ok, I decided to install netcfg -- one problem. During package selection selection, I went in and selected sudo and netcfg in addition to the defaults, but when I rebooted they weren't there. I did another install, selected netcfg & sudo, but whenever I returned to the menu they'd deselected themselves. This happened several times. What gives?
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Actually, FenDanT is absolutely correct. I had issues connecting to WPA2 and after I upgraded wicd to version 1.5, it "works like a charm."
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Ok, I decided to install netcfg -- one problem. During package selection selection, I went in and selected sudo and netcfg in addition to the defaults, but when I rebooted they weren't there. I did another install, selected netcfg & sudo, but whenever I returned to the menu they'd deselected themselves. This happened several times. What gives?
Never mind -- netcfg & sudo were installed successfully after all. Well, that solves that problem! Thanks a lot, everyone.
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