Installing Arch on my Toshiba Satellite M70 - NEWBIE

Hey everyone, I'm a complete noob to Archlinux. I have used Ubuntu and have had that running for a while. I've read good things about arch and have installed it on my M70 notebook.
The installation went fine except for two things:
1) My timezone failed when booting into linux. I'm not sure why but after I set the clock, the rc.conf didnt update it to match my timezone (Australia/Brisbane).
2) My network connection failed. This is where I'm really confused as I really don't now where to start. I'm not sure how I can find the name of wireless card for the laptop and how to setup DHCP and put in my WPA password.
I am wanting to install GNOME aswell, however, I need my connection working to install this.
Any help would be great!

I just came across this:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wif … d_Firmware
So judging by this I typed in:
# lspci | grep -i net
And the output is:
6.02.0 Network Controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915AGB [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
I then get up to:
# iwconfig
Output:
lo no wireless extensions
eth0 no wireless extensions
So I'm not sure what to do.

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