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I have a Compaq Presario A900 laptop just installed Arch on it, went through the wireless Wiki and also checked this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=65467 (similar issue but I don't use any proxy). It has Broadcom card, 4311 Rev 02. I tried both the b43-firmware and broadcom-wl AUR packages and b43 works with my card.
I have tried with the shell to connect but "iwlist wlan0 scan" always returns no results. (Yes, I did try ifconfig eth0 down first as well before bringing wlan0 up). So I have tried wicd and it worked to connect me to my wireless network which uses WPA, and signal shows ~80% strength, however ping google.ca, nothing works as far as connected to the net.
Any output I should show I will if I have forgotten, thanks very much for your help!
Last edited by colbert (2009-05-27 00:40:48)
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discovering no networks with iwlist may point to issues with your driver, no idea about that particular one though...
when you are connected through wicd,
how/ or do you get an IP? (ifconfig wlan0)
if you can ping 74.125.39.106 , you got a DNS problem.
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Thanks for your help hokasch, however it was a result of needing to reboot and have proper daemon in rc.conf, and it has been working great last few days Thanks!
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