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[arch-general] Thunderbird bugging with Lightning + Enigmail
by Paulo Santos 20 Dec '09

20 Dec '09

Hello list, After doing the last Thunderbird update from 3.0-1 to 3.0-2 (x86_64), with the added Lightning add-on, my menus don't work very well [1]. If I disable either Lightning or Enigmail they work, they just don't work when the add-ons are loaded together. I've started up Thunderbird from the console to see if I get any output and enabled debug on Enigmail but apparently nothing goes wrong. The problem is that I have no idea where to file a bug report... Arch, Enigmail, Lightning or Thunderbird? Is anyone having this issue? Best regards, Paulo Santos [1] http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/442/thunderbirdbug.png

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[arch-general] Good press at distrowatch.com
by David C. Rankin 19 Dec '09

19 Dec '09

Guys, Probably old news to most, but I was very pleased to see the good press Arch got from distrowatch.com this week. See: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20091214#news The article reads: <quote> With Arch Linux having become such a popular distro, often praised for its rolling-release model of installing once and keeping it updated forever, we thought it would be a good time to take another look at Archiso-live. Archiso-live is an Arch Linux live CD that boots into an Xfce desktop and has a graphical system installer. In the earlier releases the installer did not work correctly, but the more recent ones come with a much improved version. We installed in on a test machine and can confirm that it was able to transfer the entire live CD onto a hard disk partition with no problems. Of course, if you install Arch Linux this way, you'll be "cheating", since easy, click-and-point installation isn't part of the "Arch way" of doing things. Nevertheless, as a method of testing this exciting distro, the "Archiso-live way" is a great time-saver. The latest version at the time of writing is 20091208 and it can be downloaded from here: archiso-live-2009-12-08.iso (685MB, MD5). </quote> Good job guys. Another testament to wise decision making, good distro management, and smart devs ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] New Thunderbird build 3.0-2 installs lightning by default
by Jürgen Hagemann 19 Dec '09

19 Dec '09

The new TB update from today enables and installs lightning by default. Bugreport: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17510?project=1&pagenum=1 This is a bad idea, because some people don´t want it. Mozilla doesn´t recommend to set the calendar flag on building... Another point is, that the builtin calendar extension is not localized. So, on non-english systems people have a "language mix" in TB... -- Regards Juergen

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[arch-general] Firefox Themes Will Not Install / Disabled - Unsecure Extenstion Updates
by David C. Rankin 18 Dec '09

18 Dec '09

Guys, After the latest firefox updates, most of my themes were disabled and new themes would not install. After the automatic update check tried to install the Foxide Graphite theme, I found out why. During the install, I received a messages telling me that firefox would not install the theme because it did not provide a secure update path. Digging a little bit disclosed the following: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Unable_to_install_themes_or_extensions_-_Firefox Unsecured updating Firefox 3 and above: Starting in Firefox 3, if an add-on does not provide a secure method of auto-updating then, by default, Firefox will refuse to install the add-on. If you have add-ons already installed that are insecure in this way, they will be automatically disabled. [6] Add-ons from AMO (https://addons.mozilla.org/) and other secured sites are not a problem; for add-ons that do provide a secure updating method, advanced users can add the preference extensions.checkUpdateSecurity (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Extensions.checkUpdateSecurity) and set it to false (not recommended). See this article: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Extension_Versioning%2C_Update_and_Com… and bug 378216 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378216) for more information. For testing purposes only, I added extensions.checkUpdateSecurity (booleen = false) to about:config and magically, all of my themes were working again. (Note: this is not advisable due to security concerns, use with discretion) (ps - I know this is a cross post ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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Re: [arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32 and Radeon KMS
by David C. Rankin 18 Dec '09

18 Dec '09

On 12/17/2009 07:52 PM, crdaley(a)gmail.com wrote: > Are you sure the problem lies within the driver itself? The fact that > you can't locate a regression with git bisect leads me to believe the > issue would be with some other software, and with so much graphics work > being done in so many different area areas it would very well be > possible. Off the top of my head it could also be in mesa, the kernel, > or X.Org. Yes, I'm sure it is the driver. I haven't completed the bisecting despite having spent hours on it. With the driver there is no way to automate the process other than building, installing, restarting X and checking and then marking good/bad. To my shagrin, there were only 90+ commits within the good/bad window I have. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32 and Radeon KMS
by Gabriel Morrison Lima Dantas 18 Dec '09

18 Dec '09

Hi, I installed kernel26 and kernel26-firmware from testing, and I'm experiencing some problems with KMS. During system initialization, the system requests the firmware radeon/R300_cp.bin, waits a couple of seconds and then proceeds normal initialization. But when I log into X, DRI isn't enabled. Checking dmesg, I see that the kernel couldn't load R300 firmware, therefore disabling GPU acceleration. My problem is the same of this post: http://old.nabble.com/kernel-2.6.32-experiences-td26458040.html. Thomas said that mkinitcpio automatically inserts firmware listed in modinfo module in the initramfs image. When I run modinfo radeon | grep R300, it shows me 'firmware: radeon/R300_cp.bin'. So it should be available to kernel at the time of requesting it, shouldn't it? Has someone any idea to help solving that problem? Thanks in advance. -- Gabriel Morrison

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[arch-general] Udev rules
by Majikinszzz 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Hi I'm coming from an ubuntu background where this line in the udev.rule file worked. SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="0fd1", ATTR{idProduct}=="1000", ATTR{bConfigurationValue}=="1",RUN+="/bin/bash -c 'echo 3 > /sys/bus/usb/devices/%b/bConfigurationValue'" However this does not work in Arch and I'm really struggling to understand the udev wiki and udev rules - its going a bit over my head at the moment. I have experimented with trying this line from looking at other udev rules: SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="1000", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0fd1", RUN+="/bin/bash -c 'echo 3 > /sys/bus/usb/devices/%b/bConfigurationValue'" the device is then recognised but /var/log/messages then shows and endless looping of the device be connected and disconnected. I'm not sure what to do. Please can someone help? M Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you!

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[arch-general] Udev rules
by Majikinszzz 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Hi I'm coming from an ubuntu background where this line in the udev.rule file worked. SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="0fd1", ATTR{idProduct}=="1000", ATTR{bConfigurationValue}=="1",RUN+="/bin/bash -c 'echo 3 > /sys/bus/usb/devices/%b/bConfigurationValue'" However this does not work in Arch and I'm really struggling to understand the udev wiki and udev rules - its going a bit over my head at the moment. I have experimented with trying this line from looking at other udev rules: SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="1000", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0fd1", RUN+="/bin/bash -c 'echo 3 > /sys/bus/usb/devices/%b/bConfigurationValue'" the device is then recognised but /var/log/messages then shows and endless looping of the device be connected and disconnected. I'm not sure what to do. Please can someone help? M Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom - let your email find you!

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[arch-general] speaking of Thunderbird 3.X - great new thread summary view
by David C. Rankin 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Guys, If any of you had done as I did and abandon thunderbird in favor of another mua and haven't looked at thunderbird 3.0 yet, you are in for a real treat if you view messages with threading. There is a new thread summary you are presented with when you select a collapsed thread that displays the first 3-4 lines for each message in the thread -- and -- gives you the option to delete the entire thread after reviewing the summary with a single click. Very handy when needing to quickly pick through a long thread to find the relevant info: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/ss/moz/tbird-thread-summary.jpg -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Quanta - Installed w/kde4, but ssh/sftp/fish upload choices are gone??
by David C. Rankin 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Listmates, With my latest install, I didn't install kde3, but I did install quanta since that is what I use to maintain my home site. Tonight is the first time I've actually used quanta since the fresh install of arch to my laptop. I didn't notice the problem until I went to upload changes and got an error about my server being unavailable?? Checking further in 'Project -> Upload Project -> Edit' I notice the only transfer methods available in the listbox are 'file', 'ftp', 'webdav', 'webdavs'. Err... no ssh, fish or sftp anymore? I suspect the kde3 kio-slaves are missing and that quanta hasn't been updated to make use of the kde4 stuff. Obviously, I can use ftp... until I tried to. When I pressed upload, it was like I was trying to upload 200Mib instead of the actual 20k that needed. It was simply crawling along. Has anyone managed to get the project -> update configured to work correctly in quanta on kde4. If you did, how? What's the trick? I would hate to have to install kde3 just to get the quanta upload feature back. What say the experts? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.32.1-1
by Tobias Powalowski 17 Dec '09

17 Dec '09

Hi guys, Upstream changes: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges Arch Linux bugfixes/feature requests: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16855 # added CONFIG_PM_DEBUG http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17106 # added CONFIG_MMIOTRACE Arch Linux changes: - splitted kernel-headers to extra package If you want to build external modules please install: pacman -S kernel26-headers Please change your PKGBUILDS to makedepend on this package. - added xen support to 64bit kernel - changed intel kms enabled by default - changed to new firewire subsystem: http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration Please signoff both arches, greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] kernel26 in [current] cries for love when new kernel version hits [testing]
by Emmanuel Benisty 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

Hi, As far as I can remember i.e. quite far but also super blurry, as soon as a new kernel version hits [testing], the [current] version won't be updated anymore (it may have happened when _huge_ security issues had been discovered). Today, we're stuck at .31.6 when .31.8 is out. Not a complain as I have all the tools to build any kernel I'd like to run (1 machine running Arch stock kernel out of 4 anyway) but well, just sayin'... Cheers.

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[arch-general] cpufrequtils dead or alive ?
by Xavier 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

I just noticed a bump of cpufrequtils to 006-2 : http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/cpufrequtils/ What do you do with the bugs ? http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10959 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14083 Both are valid bugs, annoying, and trivial to fix ...

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[arch-general] Inkscape maintainer MIA?
by Marti Raudsepp 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

Hi arch-general, I'd like to point your attention to the Inkscape package: Inkscape version 0.47 was released on November 25. This is a very significant release that many Inkscape users have been waiting patiently. However, the Arch Linux Inkscape maintainer, Tobias Kieslich, seems to be missing in action. Looking at his FlySpray activity, his last comment seems to be dated November 18. Can anyone please look into resolving this? Regards, Marti

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[arch-general] I know of $repo, is there a $arch too?
by Magnus Therning 15 Dec '09

15 Dec '09

This is the second time I'm being stupid when modifying my mirrorlist and I by accident put in a i686 repo on a 64-bit machine. I can report that running 32-bit sudo on a 64-bit machine is fraught with problems :-) So, just to work around my stupidity I was wondering if it is possible to put something like $arch in the mirrorlist, so I can stop writing out i686/x86_64? That would at least take care of this problem for the system repos. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[arch-general] [OT] What is wrong with DBus anyway?
by Denis A. Altoé Falqueto 13 Dec '09

13 Dec '09

Hi, fellow archers. I've created a new email with a new subject, so that who wants to ignore this completely, can do it easily. The recent past discussions about DBus got me thinking about an unanswered question: what is technically wrong with DBus? After some time researching about that, I can't find that answer by myself. DBus is just a way to make applications communicate. It can be used in several languages, namely C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, and many more. There are tools for it in bash, although there's some limitations with that, but is very easy to do something fast in python or perl or ruby or... It (DBus) has some interesting mechanisms to activate daemons just when needed. I find this feature very interesting, so that you only spend the resources when you really need. One restriction is that it is not network enabled, so it only works locally. But in the home page, there is a invitation to improve that situation (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DBusRemote) Anyway, I would like to read what others have to say about DBus, but please give techinical reasons. I don't want to know who likes and who dislikes DBus. And I don't have anything against who dislikes DBus. Everyone is entitled to an opinion. Thanks. -- R: Porque prejudica a legibilidade do texto. P: Porque é ruim colocar a resposta de um e-mail antes do texto citado? ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto -------------------------------------------

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] kernel 2.6.32-1
by Emmanuel Benisty 12 Dec '09

12 Dec '09

On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Thomas Bächler wrote: >> >> Allan McRae schrieb: >>> >>> That works for me. I initially thought it was strange that it came on >>> but now I see why. extreme-tuxracer is giving me (>50%) more FPS with this >>> update. >> >> Intel DRM has been improved, I noticed that too - probably due to >> framebuffer compression. >> >> KMS is enabled by default because the next intel driver version will >> require it to work. > > With KMS on, my screen flickers every 20sec or so. Tried with no xorg.conf > and the same thing. I even got some sort of yellow/orange screen of death. > I did not use KMS with 2.6.31 so this may not be kernel related. I'll look > into it later but disabling kms from the grub prompt works fine... It's definitely a kernel regression, I'm having the exact same issue with .32 only (using KMS since few kernel releases)

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[arch-general] libmsn-4.0-1 & kopete
by miquel canes 12 Dec '09

12 Dec '09

Hi all, Kopete msn plugin doesn't work with libmsn-4.0-1. Maybe kopete needs recompile with this new version. Kopete version: 0.80.2. Greetings Miquel

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[arch-general] Bug on Initrd scripts
by goodmenzy＠gmail.com 12 Dec '09

12 Dec '09

Hi all Anyone has intesting about bug 17474 (at http://bugs.archlinux.org/) ? When a kernel param begins with digital, the initrd scrip (/lib/initcpio/init) will fail. At least one such kernel param is found: "8250.nr_uarts=xxx" Because the 8250 is a driver name and that driver is compiled into the kernel( not as a module),so the only way to set param of it is by kernel cmdline. But in initrc scripts, the "case" block does handle that correctly. I beg the maintainer fix this bug, please.

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[arch-general] makechrootpkg and long union unmount time
by Evangelos Foutras 11 Dec '09

11 Dec '09

Hello, When I'm building a package using makechrootpkg and the build fails or I happen to interrupt it, sometimes it gets stuck at the "cleaning up unioned mounts" stage for a very long time (from several seconds up to a few minutes). During this time, the disk shows intense activity. Does this happen to others too? Any idea why this is occurring and how to prevent it?

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[arch-general] suggestion for pacman: Recommended packages.
by Hussam Al-Tayeb 11 Dec '09

11 Dec '09

The current case for many packages that use optdepends is as follows. Let's say a package called package1 installs some extra binaries or plugins. Those extra not so used binaries or plugins have extra dependencies (let's call them libsomething) marked as optdepends. so on installation pacman will say something: optional dependency: libsomething needed for package1 plugins to work. How about instead those extra binary files or plugins are split into another package called package1-plugins and have libsomething as plain dependency? Then on package1 installation, pacman should say something like: Recommended packages: package1-plugins for blah blah functionality. A good example is the pacman package itself which has an optional dependency on python for rankmirrors script. Maybe we could split it into a separate pacman-rankmirrors which depends on python the when a user installs/upgrades pacman package, he/she is prompted for recommended package pacman-rankmirrors for blah blah functionality. pacman-rankmirrors would depend on python. I think this is a better and cleaner approach. Obviously not every package can use that approach but it will clean some optdepends and remove some ldd errors because of uninstalled optdepends. Another thing, anyway to make pacman -Rns somepackage also remove optional dependencies that no other package uses?

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Packaging Chromium for [extra]
by Denis A. Altoé Falqueto 11 Dec '09

11 Dec '09

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre(a)archlinux.de> wrote: > OK, just uploaded -2 to testing; let me know, if it does work or not. Now it is working with youtube. A local site with flash videos continues to work. -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad? ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto -------------------------------------------

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[arch-general] kde4/kmail slow - anybody else notice or is it just me?
by David C. Rankin 11 Dec '09

11 Dec '09

Guys, Quick request for confirmation. I generally have used tbird in the past but when doing the kde4.3beta tests, I resolved to use kmail and I have pretty much stuck with it since May. The issue I am seeing is a slowdown in kmail that I guess is 4.3.4 related. Specifically I see a slowdown when I access a mail folder containing >2000 messages or so. Each time I leave and return to a folder (my arch folder for example) kmail reloads and re-sorts the entire folder taking some 20+ seconds each time. It is like all 'folder state' caching (for lack of better words) has been turned off. (if that is possible) Anybody else seeing a slow down in kmail? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

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[arch-general] Fwd: [arch-dev-public] Packaging Chromium for [extra]
by Denis A. Altoé Falqueto 11 Dec '09

11 Dec '09

>For some unknown reason the current package crashes with flash sometimes. Any >ideas? Or maybe it's just me? It's happening with me too... :( Youtube crashes in the pages that contains videos. But another page (a brazilian news site with flash videos too) works fine. -- A: Because it obfuscates the reading. Q: Why is top posting so bad? ------------------------------------------- Denis A. Altoe Falqueto -------------------------------------------

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[arch-general] iwl5000 issues
by Rafa Grimán 10 Dec '09

10 Dec '09

Hi :) Got a Lenovo T400 laptop with an Intel 5100 wireless card, lspci: 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection Which was working until I updated my system. Kernel version: # uname -a Linux currotop 2.6.31-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 10 19:01:40 CET 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux Have the following packages installed: # pacman -Q | grep -iE "(kernel|iw|wireless)" iwlwifi-5000-ucode 8.24.2.12-2 kernel-headers 2.6.31.5-1 kernel26 2.6.31.6-1 kernel26-firmware 2.6.31-1 wireless_tools 29-3 Modules that are loaded: # lsmod | grep -i iwl iwlagn 132576 0 iwlcore 126496 1 iwlagn mac80211 179312 2 iwlagn,iwlcore led_class 5160 2 thinkpad_acpi,iwlcore cfg80211 104344 3 iwlagn,iwlcore,mac80211 dmesg says this: # dmesg | grep -i iwl iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, 1.3.27ks iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2009 Intel Corporation iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5100AGN REV=0x54 iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 24 802.11a channels iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: irq 31 for MSI/MSI-X phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs' Nothing weird in /var/log/messages.lo: Dec 8 14:01:25 currotop kernel: iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, 1.3.27ks Dec 8 14:01:25 currotop kernel: iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2009 Intel Corporation Dec 8 14:01:25 currotop kernel: iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 Dec 8 14:01:25 currotop kernel: iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5100AGN REV=0x54 Dec 8 14:01:25 currotop kernel: iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 24 802.11a channels Following the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless#iwl3945.2C_iwl4965_and_iwl5000- series ifconfig -a gives this: wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1E:65:CF:B5:7A BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-1E-65-CF- B5-7A-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 [NO FLAGS] MTU:0 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) I get the following errors: # ifconfig wlan0 up SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132 # iwlist wlan0 scan wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down Seems the firmware doesn't get loaded, but I have the firmware package installed as listed previously, checking: # pacman -Ql iwlwifi-5000-ucode iwlwifi-5000-ucode /lib/ iwlwifi-5000-ucode /lib/firmware/ iwlwifi-5000-ucode /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode iwlwifi-5000-ucode /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode iwlwifi-5000-ucode /usr/ iwlwifi-5000-ucode /usr/share/ iwlwifi-5000-ucode /usr/share/licenses/ iwlwifi-5000-ucode /usr/share/licenses/iwlwifi-5000-ucode/ iwlwifi-5000-ucode /usr/share/licenses/iwlwifi-5000-ucode/LICENSE ls -lha /lib/firmware/iwl* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 337K 2009-11-24 04:08 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 345K 2009-11-24 04:08 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode my /etc.rc.conf MODULES line holds this: MODULES=(... blkcipher aes arc4 ecb cryptomgr crypto_algapi iwlagn ...) I have been reading the forums and found these 2 links: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=77416 seems that okczenaj solved the issue reinstalling his system and installing: iw iwlwifi-5000-ucode wireless_tools packages http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=62532 seems iggyst00ge solved his issues by dropping Arch Linux 64 Is there any way to solve this issue without having to reinstall my laptop? As I said before, my wireless was working until I updated. Don't know for sure which package broke wireless connectivity. TIA Rafa -- "We cannot treat computers as Humans. Computers need love." rgriman(a)skype.com rgriman(a)jabberes.org Happily using KDE 4.3.3 :)

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