Wifi Setup with Netcfg on ArchLinux

[thurstonxander]

Kaddy, you f***in' rock. I will finish my first Arch install tonight! I feel so accomplished! lol

[Linux4UnMe]

@thurstonxander

haha awesome.... hope it all works out :d

[Blkdrmz]

thank you, I personally forgot the NETWORKS=("networkname") in my rc.conf

[Linux4UnMe]

@Blkdrmz

no probs

[HomeInventors]

Dude thanks for this tut, I was setting up arch Linux and wifi wouldnt work so I followed this and bam I have wifi

[Linux4UnMe]

@HomeInventors

awesome! glad it helped out :)

[iamkells]

I suggest, keeping your political views on a separate channel. Just a suggestion.

[Linux4UnMe]

@iamkells

suggestion denied. But thanx for the opinion

[Tiako44]

Thanks this helped a ton

[Linux4UnMe]

@Tiako44

glad it helped

[HybridMoments13]

Awesome tutorial! After more hours than I even want to admit of trying to install Arch on my POS laptop I finally got my wifi working! Thanks again for the awesome tutorial!

[Linux4UnMe]

@HybridMoments13

no probs man, glad it helped you

[MermaFX]

thanks a fuckton.

[Linux4UnMe]

@MermaFX

LoL

[WilliamBaileyR]

useful for me, really thank you.

but you could even just run:

# pacman -S network-manager-applet networkmanager

# /etc/rc.d/networkmanager start

and get the network manager to easily connect ^^

[Linux4UnMe]

@WilliamBaileyR

indeed you can ;)

[techkidguru]

What are the names of the ram and processor widgets?

[Linux4UnMe]

@techkidguru

hmmm can't remember now and I don't have screenlets anymore lol

[theif519]

Nevermind! Uncommented and it works! After pinging google over 20 times, 0% packet loss! Thank you very much! I should have looked at your guide the first time! Mucho Gracias! Now, time to get on my school work, I've been neglecting it lately for Linux

[Linux4UnMe]

@theif519

ah ok haha. yeah that would help ;)

[theif519]

I thank you for the shortcut, but it doesn't automatically load "comcast" which is what I set as; MODULES=(ath5k) eth0="dhcp" wlan0="dhcp" INTERFACES=(eth0 wlan0) #NETWORKS=(comcast)

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus @net-profiles !network netfs crond gdm)

Should I uncomment Netoworks?

[Linux4UnMe]

@solzt4r

nar it's still there man.. I did a fresh install about 4 weeks ago and connected to my wifi with it

while installing

[bamdadkhan]

wow, thanks, i've always been sucking hard with wpa-supplicant.conf &co. :D

[OmenX13]

Nice Tutorial - Thanks.

[Linux4UnMe]

@Worfox1

for some reason My connection signal strength shows up weak on wicd.... doesn't happen with most other wifi connection managers.... weird

[berre1994]

100% cpu = ?

For real?

[SolomonKull]

@berre1994

Major resource hog, holy shit. Must be the screencastng software accompanied by the bloated desktop environment, the useless widgets etc. Seems to completly go against the Arch philosophy.

[Nyocurio]

@SolomonKull I'm not too familiar with Arch, but isn't its "slimness" mainly there to give you maximum customization capabilities rather than just for the sake of "being slim"?

[SolomonKull]

@Nyocurio

The Arch philosophy is K.I.S.S.

"Keep It Simple, Stupid."

[Linux4UnMe]

@SolomonKull

it is caused by the gnome-shell screenrecorder... it's buggy

[Linux4UnMe]

@SolomonKull

The Arch philosophy "Kiss" refers to the system itself kept simple "technologically"

It has nothing to do with what a user "should" choose to run on their Desktop...

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@Linux4UnMe

How the fuck is KDE "simple technologically"? KDE is the anti-KISS.

[Linux4UnMe]

@67576856666478964567

I never said Kde was.... I said Arch aims for simplicity...

[Linux4UnMe]

@berre1994

yeah the inbuilt gnome-shell screen recorder is at fault

[BeeFive13]

I've been using networkmanager since 2007 or so. Never had any problems with wifi. In a recent update they even changed the default setting to connect straight on login/startup, even before X has started up, which is really neat.

[robvelor]

networkmanager has been reliable enough for me, most of the trouble I had was because I have broadcom wireless card, other than that networkmanager is great. Also, it fits right in on the gnome shell interface, although I changed to openbox on my laptop

[clays121]

I like the idea of Linux overall, but this is one of the parts of Linux that drives me nuts, and has kept me from deploying it on all my systems. LOL!

[Nyocurio]

@clays121 remember that this is just an option. For me,

the GUI NetworkManager by RedHat has always worked perfectly, but I still might have to connect through the command line sometimes. Don't expect that to be easier (or maybe even possible) on other platforms

[Linux4UnMe]

@clays121

lol what part? the terminal stuff? it is not required... it is merely an "option"