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Rician

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Registered: 2010-10-24

Posts: 44

How to get wireless networking work. **SOLVED**

Hello. i am trying to get my wireless networking to work.. My wired network works no problem but wireless dont... can you help me please?

my network card : Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN

Last edited by Rician (2010-10-30 11:46:05)

tomk

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Registered: 2004-07-21

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Re: How to get wireless networking work. **SOLVED**

Read this first: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup

If you still have problems, provide details, and someone will probably help you.

Rician

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Registered: 2010-10-24

Posts: 44

Re: How to get wireless networking work. **SOLVED**

lspci | grep -i net = 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02

pacman -S wireless_tools installed
pacman -S madwifi installed
pacman -S linux-firmware installed

MOD_AUTOLOAD is set to yes in /etc/rc.conf

ifconfig -a =
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1E:EC:88:04:99 
          inet addr:10.0.0.5  Bcast:10.0.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21e:ecff:fe88:499/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:76136 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:49324 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:105477230 (100.5 Mb)  TX bytes:4187853 (3.9 Mb)
          Interrupt:48 Base address:0x6000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:640 (640.0 b)  TX bytes:640 (640.0 b)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:16:EA:7A:3D:38 
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

when i connect to my wlan0 > it stays on connecting untill i get a wrong password error.... but the password is NOT wrong.
i am using Wicd Network Manager.
The wpa_gui Status : could not get status from wpa_supplicant
why cant it get a status?

i fixed the wireless networking myself. its all good.i will mark this thread as solved....

Last edited by Rician (2010-10-30 11:45:06)