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Volk21

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Registered: 2010-06-03

Posts: 4

Booting with intel-wireless

Trying to install Arch on a netbook. Used unetbootin to create a liveusb. How do I boot with this parameter?

"For intel wireless drivers you need to boot with the intel-wireless boot parameter"

Volk21

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Registered: 2010-06-03

Posts: 4

Re: Booting with intel-wireless

Can someone help me? GRUB of course doesn't exist yet so I can't add it in there. I really have no idea where to put this parameter.

MickST

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Registered: 2010-02-26

Posts: 54

Re: Booting with intel-wireless

Are you using the latest release images (2010.05)?

If so I would rather recommend to copy them to the USB stick using dd [1] and using that instead of using unetbootin. I have not used it, which loader does it use?

[1]: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … #USB_stick

schen

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Registered: 2009-06-06

Posts: 468

Re: Booting with intel-wireless

Try it without the intel-wireless boot parameter. If if still works, continue on. Also, only a few hours passed before you bumped this thread. Please try to be more patient.

Volk21

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Registered: 2010-06-03

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Re: Booting with intel-wireless

Try it without the intel-wireless boot parameter. If if still works, continue on. Also, only a few hours passed before you bumped this thread. Please try to be more patient.

Right, sorry.

Anyway, I got it to boot with that, but now I've realized that's not what I needed, I have an Atheros card.

Thing is, I can't get it to work during the setup.

These are outputs of some commands:

>lspci | grep -i net
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Uknown device 4380 (rev 10)
02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. Unknown device 002a (rev 01)

>iwconfig
lo     no wireless extensions

iwconfig and ifconfig of wlan and ath 0 through 3 say they don't exist. What am I to do?

cesura

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Registered: 2010-01-23

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Re: Booting with intel-wireless

Did you load the atheros module? That device seems to need the ath9k module:

modprobe ath9k

EDIT: That is what you needed, correct? To get wlan0 to appear for iwconfig? If that doesn't work, try modprobe ath5k

Last edited by cesura (2010-06-03 19:51:16)

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Volk21

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Registered: 2010-06-03

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Re: Booting with intel-wireless

I tried loading it before. The setups automatic search doesn't find it, so it told me to load the modules manually. modprobe ath9k and modprobe ath5k both yield fatal errors, "module not found".

And yes, that is what I need- wlan0 up so that setup can connect to the FTP server.