Wireless not working..

Austin09 · 2010-01-19 19:00:41

okay, Ive been on arch for a few weeks now. Wireless internet has been working ever since. Until last night. I was on the intertnet doing my normal stuff. I left and came back later and the wireless isnt working. I thought that was weird, so i got my laptop, and the wireless is working. I killed wlan0 and brought it back up, reassigned the essid. start dhcpcd. and it wont connect. I tried networkmanager and it wont connect, it wont give any errors. I reinstalled my drivers and tried again, still nothing. I reset my modem and that didnt fix anything.

I need help, any ideas?

Austin09 · 2010-01-19 19:24:54

I killed network manager, Started up wlan0 manually, and now I just get dhcpcd timed out.

karabaja4 · 2010-01-19 19:40:35

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88663
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88792
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17838

keronn wrote:

Deleting /var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth0.lease also fix the "timed out " http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88792 Seems like a clue...

Maybe devs should consider putting this in some visible area because there are some number of "dhcpcd timeout" threads...

Austin09 · 2010-01-19 20:02:01

Okay, remocing the file listed in the post still didnt work. I think I need to downgrade back to dhcpcd-5.1.3, but im unsure of how to do so? I followed the wiki, but i cant find the old package.

karabaja4 · 2010-01-19 20:37:13

Austin09 wrote:

Okay, remocing the file listed in the post still didnt work. I think I need to downgrade back to dhcpcd-5.1.3, but im unsure of how to do so? I followed the wiki, but i cant find the old package.

Try removing all lease files, not just the eth0 one. For example yours should be named dhcpcd-wlan0.lease...

Cyrusm · 2010-01-19 21:04:59

Austin09 wrote:

Okay, remocing the file listed in the post still didnt work. I think I need to downgrade back to dhcpcd-5.1.3, but im unsure of how to do so? I followed the wiki, but i cant find the old package.

If that is the route you want to try
you can find older versions of packages at http://schlunix.org/?page_id=11

I think the easiest way to go about things is find the package, download it, and then pacman -U it.
afterwards make sure to edit your pacman.conf to ignore this package, so that it doesn't update with
your next pacman -Syu.

Last edited by Cyrusm (2010-01-19 21:06:39)

agomezh · 2010-01-20 04:10:27

I was also having problems with the wireless after the upgrade of the package dhcpcd. I downgraded it to dhcpcd-5.1.3-1 and it fixed the issue. I'm using broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 1), without the new kernel and therefore using the wl module ( working on fixing that ).
Thank for the good work.

Modification: My problem was with a WPA.

Last edited by agomezh (2010-01-20 16:02:41)

youjh · 2010-01-20 05:17:47

Hey, I can confirm I had this problem as well, wicd-> dhcpcd timing out when connecting to a WEP wifi.
downgrading from 5.1.4 to 5.1.3 fixed it for me. :-)

pressh · 2010-01-20 18:26:55

maybe someone can vistit the bug report and attach a tcdump of both dhcpcd versions as requested here: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17838#comment55944

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Wireless not working..

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