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wirenik

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Registered: 2008-08-22

Posts: 134

Wireless issues with new install laptop: "network is down" [SOLVED]

Hey guys. I've finally installed Arch alongside Vista on my new laptop, and everything went quite smoothly until I tried to get my Internet up.

I made sure the iwl4965 driver, which is required by my Intel 4965 802.11a/b/g/n wireless card, was loaded in the MODULES=() array.

ifconfig showed eth0 and lo, both of which looked legit.
iwconfig showed wlan0...again, the output looked right to me.

Then I did iwlist scan, and got something like the following:

eth0: Interface doesn't support scanning. 
lo: Interface doesn't support scanning. 
[...]
wlan0: Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

So I tried /etc/rc.d/network restart. It went down all right but then when trying to start up, returned the following:

err, eth0: timed out
warn, eth0: using IPV4LL address <###.###.##.###>

I then tried adding wlan0 to the INTERFACES=() array (eth0 was already there) and got the same results after a reboot. I had the line
eth0="dhcp"
in rc.conf, and I changed it to
wlan0="dhcp"
and nothing changed, so I reverted it to the first way again.

Is there any additional information I need to provide? I would love some help with this "Network is down" error. Thanks for your time!

EDIT: Solved by running. ifconfig wlan0 up. Internet is up and running fine now.

Last edited by wirenik (2008-12-01 06:19:53)

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