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Firepower

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Registered: 2009-12-16

Posts: 90

Which packages are needed for rt73 chipset?

Right, so the last time I installed Arch, I blindly installed every package related to networking and the size of the install came out to be quite big for an arch install. This time, I want to reinstall it with the barest amount of packages needed for me to get on the Internet (including base and base-devel), so which packages do I select?

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hw-tph

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Registered: 2006-11-01

Posts: 149

Re: Which packages are needed for rt73 chipset?

While I have no first hand experience of rt73/rt2571 based devices myself, the Arch Wiki suggests it's no big deal.

I use wicd as a wireless connection manager as it comes with a curses based interface so you can easily select wireless networks before setting up X.org (or if you don't use it). It is very easy to set up and manage.