WGet and Makepkg

revenge1989 · 2010-06-13 11:10:24

Let me preface this with saying I am pretty much a first time linux user. I do not know much so please be patient with me

Alright, so I am using the latest version of ArchLinux I believe and am trying to set up the b43 wireless.
I've gotten to the point where I am running "makepkg PKGBUILD" on the firmware I obtained from here...http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32338
When I run this it is says that it is attempting to resolve the link, and that this failed, name or service not known
Then with wget is says unable to resolve host address

I made sure that the new source was replaced in the PKGBUILD file.
I did this with VI

Also, I am able to ping www.google.com as well as download.openwrt.org
The source file in the PKGBUILD file.

I've enabled my corded ethernet connection. First I did dhcpcd eth0 and then I did ifconfig eth0 up

Any input or ideas will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Cdh · 2010-06-13 11:21:56

You could try to reconstruct the URL from the variables and wget it manually:

wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2

You can put the file in the directory where the pkgbuild is and then makepkg will use the file that is already there instead of downloading it again (it checks via md5 sum if the file is right I believe).

Also makepkg uses PKGBUILD as default so you don't need to explicitely type PKGBUILD.

revenge1989 · 2010-06-13 13:23:38

Thanks for the info and such a quick response...
I still tried this and got the same problem...

Mr.Elendig · 2010-06-13 14:13:14

Sounds like you network isn't running correctly. Can you ping google.com or 74.125.77.147 ?

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#1 2010-06-13 11:10:24

WGet and Makepkg

#2 2010-06-13 11:21:56

Re: WGet and Makepkg

#3 2010-06-13 13:23:38

Re: WGet and Makepkg

#4 2010-06-13 14:13:14

Re: WGet and Makepkg

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