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Hey, new archer here!!!

Yesterday I installed arch 64bit and after doing some configuration tricks, I'm still left with a couple of issues.

1. No wireless networks foune

IT's an usb wifi card - (works out of the box in slackware-current on the same laptop). Here it seemed to pick it up automatically as well:

Code:

Bus 001 Device 008: ID 0ace:1215 ZyDAS WLA-54L 802.11bg

Code:

[root@archtop flas]# lsmod | grep rw

zd1211rw              43748  0 

mac80211              171772  1 zd1211rw

cfg80211              126658  2 zd1211rw,mac80211

usbcore              144604  8 usbhid,usbtouchscreen,uvcvideo,btusb,zd1211rw,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd

Code:

[root@archtop flas]# iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.



eth0      no wireless extensions.



wlan0    IEEE 802.11bg  Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated  

          Tx-Power=0 dBm  

          Retry  long limit:7  RTS thr:off  Fragment thr:off

          Encryption key:off

          Power Management:off

Code:

[root@archtop flas]# ifconfig wlan0 up

SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

[root@archtop flas]#

Code:

[root@archtop flas]# ifconfig wlan0 up

SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

[root@archtop flas]#

Wireless-tools are installed. I also installed wicd. It says that no wireless networks found.

btw, What can I do for wicd-client to appear in the panel automatically? In kde it starts automatically but asks me for the root password. In Awesome it doesn't start automatically. I'm a member of those groups: lp wheel network video audio optical storage power users

Googling the error above gave me suggestions about not installed firmware. Wlan0 has been created so it must be installed. I think.

Please, advise.

I've got some other minor issues with this install, but that's for other threads.