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#1 2010-06-10 15:30:20

Ben9250
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[SOLVED] Configuring Network

Hi I got my Archlinux up and going as per the beginners guide, up to the point of trying to ping google to try and see if the net is working but I got an unknown host error return to me. This network configuration business is completely new to me and even the beginner's guide has me a bit vexed. I'm on a Dell XPS M1530 laptop and have only ever used a Wireless connection with my virgin broadband router. Where a lot of the instructions talk about wired connections and Ethernet. With Ubuntu my wireless wouldn't work without b43-fwcutter package to install propriety software (the driver). I made sure that this was installed as a package to Arch but other that that I'm with little clue regarding these different network settings, mostly because as I've said I've just normally connected by wireless to my router. Could anybody please help me or direct me to a good place for complete noobs at this networking stuff, especially as a lot of it made little sense to me as I only need wireless.
Cheers.

Last edited by Ben9250 (2010-07-05 21:48:40)


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#2 2010-06-10 15:33:22

demian
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Re: [SOLVED] Configuring Network

The wiki:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Configuring_Network

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#3 2010-06-10 16:48:37

Ben9250
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Re: [SOLVED] Configuring Network

Ok, reading through that I found this: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wir … all_Driver about wireless networks. Should I just do this or do I still need to do the other stuff in the configure files, it seems odd I'd have to set up all this Ethernet stuff and wired stuff when I don't have it and have never had it.


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