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magarcan

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Registered: 2008-10-23

Posts: 19

RT73 wifi

I just installed Arch on my laptop, only has wireless, so until I can't configure the network could not be able to install the graphic server  or anything ... (I chose in the installation base system and wireless-tools package).

My card has the RT73 chip, which in theory has support from the kernel 2.6.25 (which I installed).

The fact is that I do:
iwconfig-> shows me my card and recognized it as wlan0
ifconfig wlan0 up-> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

Any idea? Thanks

Last edited by magarcan (2008-10-23 11:59:10)

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: RT73 wifi

You probably need firmware too (pacman -S rt2x00-rt71w-fw). Check dmesg for more info.

magarcan

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Registered: 2008-10-23

Posts: 19

Re: RT73 wifi

I do not have internet connection on this computer, can I install it from my Arch linux install Cd???

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

Re: RT73 wifi

I don't know if it's in the installation media. If it isn't, you could perhaps move it on a pendrive or through wired network.