[arch-general] Laptop Install - 2 questions remain, WPA and Compiz with Radeon Driver

[Dwight Schauer]

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Networkmanager
or
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wicd

Both explain how depending on what you are running.


On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:54 AM, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 03 May 2009 05:21:05 Jan Spakula wrote:
>> Excerpts from David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.'s message of So Mai 03 12:11:04
> +0200 2009:
>> > (1) My laptop has an Atheros card and is happily using the madwifi
>> > driver. The only problem is that I'm starting it manually and need to
>> > know where to put the pieces to have it start automatically. Basically,
>> > it takes 3 commands to get my wifi going:
>> >
>> > ESSID=${1:-skyline}
>> > IFACE=${2:-wlan0}
>> >
>> > iwconfig ${IFACE} essid "${ESSID}"
>> >
>> > wpa_supplicant -i${IFACE} -Dwext -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -d -B
>> >
>> > >> /var/log/wpa_start.log 2>&1
>> >
>> > sleep 2   # This doesn't count as a command
>> >
>> > dhcpcd wlan0
>> >
>> >     My question is "Where do I put this stuff to make it happen when I
>> > start Arch??
>>
>> Install the netcfg package, create a profile under /etc/network.d (there
>> are some examples, so you shouldn't have any problem), and edit
>> /etc/rc.conf: add the name of your profile into "NETWORKS=(...)" and add
>> 'net-profiles' to your DAEMONS.
>>
>> -- Jan
>
> Jan,
>
>        While I'm at it, where can I turn the default attempt to start 'eth0' off.
> All I care about is wireless on my laptop. If I need the wired connection I
> can go start it manually, but I'd like to get rid of the ... waiting and the
> [Fail] on boot. I thought about removing 'main' from the NETWORK  section,
> but I didn't want to kill the loopback setup (if that's where it is done).
> What say the gurus? Where do I turn off the attempt to start eth0?
>
> --
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