Network connections on Mac Pro

Hi all, first post.
I've just successfully (in my opinion) installed the latest Arch distrib from CD onto my 2008 Mac Pro. So far so good (and very fast!)
I've come across two issues, one being more important than the other. I cannot seem to get my network connections sorted out.
I have 2x onboard Intel ethernet connections (eth0 & eth1) and a Airport Extreme card (Broadcom BCM4328 rev 03)
lspci | grep Network
0d:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)
ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:32:30:E9:C0
inet addr:192.168.1.66 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2829 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2847 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:1869701 (1.7 Mb) TX bytes:457029 (446.3 Kb)
Memory:93c20000-93c40000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:32:30:E9:C1
UP 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)
Memory:93c00000-93c20000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 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:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:4F:FF:C3:38
UP BROADCAST RUNNING 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)
Interrupt:19
# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s Tx-Power:24 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Managementmode:All packets received
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 no wireless extensions.
Network Manager does not report any of the network interfaces. When I boot the system, "Starting Network" takes for ages and then [FAILS] as the dhcpcd daemon times out. I can however get onto the net?!? If I exclude eth1 and wlan0 from rc.conf then it all goes OK.
For what it's worth, my setup is: ADSL router connected to Mac via ethernet (Only for setup purposes), Airport express base station connected to ADSL router. (the later being my preffered setup...no wires!)
I'm trying to unplug the ethernet link and only make use of the wireless.
I have installed the wl Broadcom module and blacklisted the older modules.
MODULES=(lib80211_crypt_tkip wl !b43 !ssb !b43legacy !ndiswrapper !pcskr !snd_pcsp loop)
#Static IP example
#eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
wlan0="dhcp"
eth0="dhcp"
eth1="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(wlan0 eth0 eth1)
# Routes to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
# - prefix an entry in ROUTES with a ! to disable it
gateway="default gw 192.168.1.254"
ROUTES=(!gateway)
192.168.1.254 is my DNS server in the ADSL router and also the default gateway.
My Airport Express is 10.0.1.2.
I've also had to statically assign hardware addresses to the interfaces due to the broadcom driver...
/etc/rc.d/udev/rules.d/10-networks.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTR{address}=="00:1d:4f:ff:c3:38", NAME="wlan0"
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTR{address}=="00:23:32:30:e9:c0", NAME="eth0"
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTR{address}=="00:23:32:30:e9:c1", NAME="eth1
So, the question is, how do I get shot of the wired connection and only use wireless...but still have the option of going wired if required. Should I be using netcfg??? I haven't done anything with WPA on the wireless side yet???
Any help would be appreciated...
Thanks!
Links referred to...
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_BCM4312
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MacBook
Jacques

No, thanks. I've wiped Arch but will install again soon. I'll give networkmanager a go. Thanks.

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