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post #1 of 15
5/3/05 at 1:57am
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I think the title says it best. I have enough experience with *nix systems to be comfortable with the command line. I have experience with several distro's but I still only know enough to cause myself problems.

I installed archlinux two days ago and have been peaking and tweaking the config files to get everything up and running. I finally have Xorg running (but not properly configured to take full advantage of my vidcard) and im using icewm as a window manager.

The biggest obstacle at hand right now is configuring for wireless. I found the archlinux howto and sample config but it didn't really explain much nor did it get into troubleshooting. My wireless system is the intel 2200bg which doesn't seem to be supported by the CD, so I'm guessing I'll have to source the package and burn it to a CD to mount on the laptop unless someone has another suggestion?

If anyone has succeeded in installing archlinux and has some time to help me out with this I would greatly appreciate it.

If I do manage to get it working I will be happy to do a small writeup so that anyone else who might want to try out archlinux can give it a shot.

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RadHaz
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post #2 of 15
5/3/05 at 2:32am
search here for ndiswrapper

i posted many times a how to for wifi
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post #3 of 15
5/3/05 at 12:20pm
ndiswrapper is not needed for the 2200BG. You can get that running with the native drivers for Linux.

I don't use archlinux though.

A quick google will find the 2200BG drivers for linux.
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post #4 of 15
5/3/05 at 3:23pm
isn't the 2200 based on a prism chip or aetheros?
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post #5 of 15
5/3/05 at 5:14pm
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Originally Posted by RadHaz
I think the title says it best. I have enough experience with *nix systems to be comfortable with the command line. I have experience with several distro's but I still only know enough to cause myself problems.

I installed archlinux two days ago and have been peaking and tweaking the config files to get everything up and running. I finally have Xorg running (but not properly configured to take full advantage of my vidcard) and im using icewm as a window manager.

The biggest obstacle at hand right now is configuring for wireless. I found the archlinux howto and sample config but it didn't really explain much nor did it get into troubleshooting. My wireless system is the intel 2200bg which doesn't seem to be supported by the CD, so I'm guessing I'll have to source the package and burn it to a CD to mount on the laptop unless someone has another suggestion?

If anyone has succeeded in installing archlinux and has some time to help me out with this I would greatly appreciate it.

If I do manage to get it working I will be happy to do a small writeup so that anyone else who might want to try out archlinux can give it a shot.

Respectfully
RadHaz
If you using the default arch kernel then
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# pacman -S ipw2200 # modprobe ipw2200 # ifconfig eth1 up
If your lacking network you will need find a way to copy ipw2200-1.0.3-2.pkg.tar.gz and wireless_tools-27-1.pkg.tar.gz to your machine and then
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# pacman -A /path/to/wireless_tools-27-1.pkg.tar.gz # pacman -A /path/to/ipw2200-1.0.3-2.pkg.tar.gz # modprobe ipw2200 # ifconfig eth1 up
If you rolled you own kernel then you need to download the source and firmware from http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/ and follow the readme in the tarball.

add ipw2200 to your rc.conf in the modules section
This will get the module installed, loaded and bring the interface up. Run "iwconfig" and "iwlist" to view/set your wireless properties and list advertised networks.

Here is a manual walkthrough of the process
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# iwlist eth1 scanning Cell 01 - Address: 00:40:96:5B:1C:EF ESSID:"<hidden>" Protocol:IEEE 802.11b Mode:Master Channel:6 Encryption key:on Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 11 Quality=79/100 Signal level=-50 dBm Extra: Last beacon: 1ms ago Cell 02 - Address: 00:06:25:E5:F5:7F ESSID:"coopster" Protocol:IEEE 802.11b Mode:Master Channel:8 Encryption key:off Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 11 Quality=41/100 Signal level=-76 dBm Extra: Last beacon: 3ms ago
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# iwconfig eth1 eth1 unassociated ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Bit Rate=0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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# iwconfig eth1 essid coopster # iwconfig eth1 eth1 unassociated ESSID:"coopster" Mode:Managed Channel=0 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Bit Rate=0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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# dhcpcd eth1 # ifconfig eth1 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:F0:29:FF:CD inet addr:10.46.1.100 Bcast:10.46.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:17 Base address:0x2000 Memory:dcffd000-dcffdfff
The wiki should be able to take it from here
If you need hellp past that let me know and welcome to Arch.

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post #6 of 15
5/3/05 at 6:16pm
Thread Starter 
Woot, thanks for all the response's.

Shawn, I'm using a default kernel but without wireless have no network connection. I am burning the archives to a cd now and will give it a crack, thank you very much for the help!
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post #7 of 15
5/3/05 at 7:00pm
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Well, I installed the packages from cd successfully; however, upon doing a modprobe ipw2200 this is what I get
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FATAL: ipw2200 not found.
I had the wireless connection working in windows so I don't suspect the hardware as I think the problem lies somewhere between the monitor and the chair.

Prior to slicking windows I ran the belarc advisor and saved a hardware profile of the laptop. I verified that I do have "Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection".

Thank you for your patience and any advice that you might have.
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post #8 of 15
5/3/05 at 8:31pm
check your /lib/modules/*kernel*/net/ for the modules that need to be there. You may also need to insmod /path/to/the/modules.
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post #9 of 15
5/3/05 at 10:10pm
this should sort your problem out
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# depmod -a # modprobe ipw2200
if not
post the error from this command
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# find /lib/modules/ -name ipw2200.ko | xargs insmod
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Shawn
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post #10 of 15
5/3/05 at 11:57pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by shawnifoley
this should sort your problem out
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# depmod -a # modprobe ipw2200
if not
post the error from this command
PHP Code:
# find /lib/modules/ -name ipw2200.ko | xargs insmod
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Shawn
Modprobe still failed

Error code is:
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insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.11.7-ARCH/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200/ipw2200.ko': -1 unknown symbol in the module
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post #11 of 15
5/4/05 at 6:52pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by RadHaz
Modprobe still failed

Error code is:
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insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.11.7-ARCH/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2200/ipw2200.ko': -1 unknown symbol in the module
hehe making a project out of this

try
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# uname -a # find /lib/modules/ -name ipw2200.ko | xargs modinfo | grep vermagic # modprobe ipw2200 # dmesg | tail
and paste all the output from the commands here. It sounds like you have a kernel module/mismatch.

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Shawn
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post #12 of 15
5/4/05 at 6:57pm
Did you by any chance recompile the drivers. I have usualy not seen that error unless the modules were for a different kernel source than what kernel is actualy running. hmmmm The game is afoot.
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post #13 of 15
5/6/05 at 3:23am
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Sorry for the delay in response, I found the solution for getting the networking working. I slicked arch and installed ubuntu, I then used this tutorial and got my laptop wifi setup. Admittedly I still had issues but it was a tad easier going with ubuntu.

Thank you for the suggestions/comments I really do appreciate it.
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post #14 of 15
5/6/05 at 11:00am
Atleast it's up and working. Good job.
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post #15 of 15
5/6/05 at 12:36pm
woot woot. ubuntu ownz
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