one problem in archlinux and wicd

[jemadux]

problably i bought new laptop , and installed archlinux , yeah is my fav distribution ,
the lspci of the machine is

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 [jemadux@gatofido ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 12)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor PCI Express x16 Root Port (rev 12)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 06)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 06)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 06)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 68e0
02:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc Device aa68
04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Device 4353 (rev 01)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)

i think the hardware is not supported in .. so what i can do now ?
i have two options :
[*] to install windows7 ( original ) that i dont want to cuz i think that linux is only i need
[*]to be with archlinux and w8ing for new kernel release to be worked out ...

BTW the moderator dedanna1029
tell me 'bout this forum

[dedanna1029]

Hello jemadux, and welcome to the forum!

I have posted to your thread at the Arch forum, and will quote what I posted there, to here, in order to help others solve the problem:

Hello,

I've received a message from jemadux about this issue, and am trying to work with him on it. He's an international user, so it may be hard for him to explain what's going on here.

I asked him for the output to rfkill list:

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[root@gatofido jemadux]# rfkill list
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: yes
 Hard blocked: no
1: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
[root@gatofido jemadux]#

It appears that his chip is "soft blocked", but I am not wifi literate enough to know how to deal with this.

I've also asked him for the output to lspci | grep Network, and checked the list for it, but it appears it may not be supported by what's on that list? I also checked the b43 wiki. I'm wondering if these lists are all inclusive? Also if there is any other information you need to help him resolve this issue?

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04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Device 4353 (rev 01)

Thanks!

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php ... 51#p839951

I'm thinking there may be a way to install the specific windows driver for this chip, but am not sure?

Thanks, Arch/wifi gurus.

[viking60]

Do you have madwifi and madwifi-utils installed? And you are shore you have set the usual lap network switch to "on"?
If so. ndiswrapper is the tool for installing Windows drivers.
In the aur you will find ndiswrapper-all. It builds for all detected kernels.
Use

NDISwrapper requires at least the ".inf" and the ".sys" files invariably supplied as parts of the Windows driver. For example, if the driver is called "mydriver", with the files mydriver.inf and mydriver.sys and vendorid:productid 0000:0000, then NDISwrapper installs the driver to /etc/ndiswrapper/mydriver/. This directory contains three files:
0000:0000.conf, which contains information extracted from the inf file
mydriver.inf (the original inf file)
mydriver.sys (the driver file)

[jemadux]

hmmm ,,,, looks nice but i not worked !

[viking60]

So what is your situation exactly? Do you have a fully functional Arch installation without the wifi?

[dedanna1029]

He let me know in I.M. that it started working. How, he couldn't remember, but he remembered installing Deluge, and it was functional.

[viking60]

Hey that is great Most of the time I don't know why it works too so join the club

[dedanna1029]

He's installing virtualbox - and some other distros. He may be sleeping now, as it's a lot later in Greece than here.

[viking60]

Oh yes he is way past midnight in Greece. I love the widespread member group here.

[dedanna1029]

I do too. The diversity here is so wonderful! <3