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TehBanz

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Registered: 2011-09-08

Posts: 6

[SOLVED] Help setting up wireless/wired

Hello everyone! I installed arch last night on my desktop and had no issues, ethernet worked during install and wireless asked for firmware. (b43/ucode5.fw , b43-open/ucode5.fw) during install i set a static IP in configuration file following the "beginner guide" after install was finished i rebooted and went to bed.

tonight when i got home i booted up my PC (damn fast!) and was assuming my LAN connection would remain. alas it didn't, I ran ifconfig and i receive "-bash: ifconfig: command not found"

i figured i'd set up my wireless because that's going to be my main source of internet anyway. so i downloaded the firmware following the "wireless guide" for my broadcom 14e4:4318 , i found out that it doesn't use the legacy driver on the kernel.org website so i followed this

sudo pacman -S b43-fwcutter
export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2
cd broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4/linux
sudo b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta.o

it moves the firmware (somewhere) i reboot and i still receive gripes about firmware! any help would be greatly appreciated as i currently have no net on this machine and would like to start configuring the rest of my hardware

Thanks everyone!

Edit:: for shits i just set eth0 to up, it's now connected to the net but my wireless issue still remains. and still no ifconfig strange!

also hello! first post, look forward to meeting you all and an exciting arch experience.

Last edited by TehBanz (2011-09-09 13:34:57)

rg_arc

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Registered: 2011-03-20

Posts: 507

Re: [SOLVED] Help setting up wireless/wired

just to be sure...type:

lspci | grep -i net

into your terminal and show us the output

I am referring to this in case you haven't seen it already.

lifeafter2am

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Registered: 2009-06-10

Posts: 1,332

Re: [SOLVED] Help setting up wireless/wired

As far as there being no ifconfig: http://www.archlinux.org/news/deprecation-of-net-tools/

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TehBanz

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Registered: 2011-09-08

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] Help setting up wireless/wired

rg_arc:

I receive the following

00:19.0 Ethernet controler: Intel Corporation 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection (rev o2)
11:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

however, as stated in my edit on post 1, i tried

ip link set eth0 up

and my static i set during set-up remained, from here i grabbed the BC43 package from AUR http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21690

rebooted and now wireless is working.

Thanks for the help RG I guess if i would have waited a bit i coulda solved it without a post, but the quick response makes me satisfied in chosing Arch as my distro !

rg_arc

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Registered: 2011-03-20

Posts: 507

Re: [SOLVED] Help setting up wireless/wired

good deal...