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rcayea

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Registered: 2010-03-21

Posts: 8

no internet, i have driver. how to install wireless driver?

I have had Arch installed on one of my three HDs for a while. I have just switched over to wireless. I bought the Asus PCE-N13 pci card. It works great on my other distro i have installed on my other HD - ubuntu (which is where I type this from).

I have the driver disk the card came with (yes, it actually supports linux). The driver is rt2860.

When I boot into my Arch HD, I am just lost as to what to do to install the driver to get my wireless working for Arch.

I'll take any tips.

Thanks,
Randy

Also, I have tried to use the Arch Wiki, but that is difficult for me personally to follow.

Last edited by rcayea (2010-03-21 18:39:29)

Mektub

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From: Lisbon /Portugal

Registered: 2008-01-02

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Re: no internet, i have driver. how to install wireless driver?

I can't help you with installing the driver that did come with the card.

However I notice that there is a rt2860 driver on the AUR. You could try to install it and see if it works.

To install from the AUR you need yaourt (or equivalent). If you don't have it, add following lines to the
end of /etc/pacman.conf:

[archlinuxfr]
Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/i686

Then execute on the command line: pacman -S yaourt

And after that: yaourt -S rt2860
Just my 2 cents.

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tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: no internet, i have driver. how to install wireless driver?

Assuming your Arch install is up to date, the rt2860sta driver is provided by the kernel. You don't need to install anything else, just modprobe it.

rcayea

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Registered: 2010-03-21

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Re: no internet, i have driver. how to install wireless driver?

Ok. thanks for the tips. I will give it a go when I get home from work tonight.

rcayea

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Registered: 2010-03-21

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Re: no internet, i have driver. how to install wireless driver?

Is there anything I should do after modprobe? I did modprobe and was successful, I think. I didn't get any errors, but I still don't get my wireless internet connection to work.

jasonwryan

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Re: no internet, i have driver. how to install wireless driver?

How are you trying to connect? Which wireless client (if you are using one) are you using and what, if any, errors are you getting?

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tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: no internet, i have driver. how to install wireless driver?

modprobing the driver, if successful, gives you an interface - that's all. You should see it in iwconfig and ifconfig -a. Assuming it's there, refer to the wiki's Wireless Setup page for the next steps.