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Hello, I just installed Arch on this Asus U56e-BBL5 and managed to get everything to work except wireless. The chip is an "intel centrino advanced-n wimax 6150" I'm assuming the driver is fine because my wlan0 is detected by ifconfig, however every time I try to use Wicd or networkmanager, I get a bad password error or time-out. I am currently using ubuntu to type this, and have verified that it works fine, however I'd love to fix this to switch back to Arch.
Btw the eth0 works fine.
Are there any suggestions?
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Which version of package net-tools do you have? If you have version "1.60.20110819cvs-1" try to downgrade it. You can get old packages from here:http://schlunix.org/archlinux/core/os/, just choose correct architecture.
EDIT: Actually the newest upgrade of wicd solved this issue with net-tools.
Last edited by Shark (2011-10-04 09:35:47)
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As of this morning, I think I may have the same problem with my Eee 701SD netbook: the wlan0 interface is active, but wicd can't authenticate to any access points (even known ones), failing with a "Disconnected" or "Bad password" error.
More worrying, though - the eth0 interface can't "lock on" either, so the Eee is unable to use any network interfaces. Do I need to download and install the latest wicd (or any other package(s)) "manually" (i.e. on another machine)?
Many thanks,
Tim.
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Try to do pacman -Syu. New wicd have come which fixes the issue. After that restart wicd daemon.
Last edited by Shark (2011-10-04 17:55:40)
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which version of Wicd are you talking about? I'm currently on 1.7.0-11
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Aaa. Yes, i was talking of this version. So the problem is somewhere else. No idea for now.
Post the logs of wicd...
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Here is my log
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The correct driver for this card is iwlagn correct? The documentation seems kind of confusing and I just want to make sure.g
Last edited by AbstractLogic (2011-10-05 01:26:41)
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Do you have loaded module wl?
According to this site https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Le … t#Wireless you have to install some package from AUR.
Post the output of "rfkill list". If you don't have it install it.
Can you connect via wpa_supplicant?
Post /etc/rc.conf.
Last edited by Shark (2011-10-05 07:24:29)
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My RF-Kill list brings back
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: asus-wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: asus-wimax: WiMAX
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
The driver you listed seems to refer to a Broadcom chip. The funny thing is that the article also states that my series of chips should be supported out of the box. I am wondering if this is on a software side. I have tried using Wicd, Networkmanager, the Network daemon (netcfg) I have not tried wpa_supplicant. (I will post my findings. I really hope I can get to the bottom of this.
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Have you seen this thread? I am looking at buying this laptop so I'm interested to know if you got the wireless issue resolved.
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