[Partially Solved] ad-hoc network and wicd

I am trying to connect my laptop to the internet through an ad-hoc network with wicd. It dies at obtaining an IP address. Is there a package that I am missing or something?
Any pointers would be great.
Last edited by zmbmartin (2010-08-01 21:33:30)

Ok so I got it working from command line from this here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=100744
but I would still like to know how to get netcfg working?
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I couldn't find any other way to get the wireless card to work, so I tried to reinstall broadcom-wl, but got this:
broadcom-wl 5.100.82.111-1
( Unsupported package: Potentially dangerous ! )
==> Edit PKGBUILD ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
==> ------------------------------------
==> n
==> broadcom-wl dependencies:
- linux (already installed)
- linux-headers (already installed)
==> Edit install ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort)
==> -----------------------------------
==> n
==> Continue building broadcom-wl ? [Y/n]
==> -------------------------------------
==>
==> Building and installing package
==> Making package: broadcom-wl 5.100.82.111-1 (Sat Oct 22 16:44:38 BST 2011)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving Sources...
-> Downloading hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_111.tar.gz...
--2011-10-22 16:44:38-- http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/ … 111.tar.gz
Resolving www.broadcom.com... 63.251.216.155
Connecting to www.broadcom.com|63.251.216.155|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1407430 (1.3M) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_111.tar.gz.part'
100%[======================================>] 1,407,430 573K/s in 2.4s
2011-10-22 16:44:41 (573 KB/s) - `hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_111.tar.gz.part' saved [1407430/1407430]
-> Found modprobe.d
-> Found license.patch
-> Found semaphore.patch
==> Validating source files with sha1sums...
hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_111.tar.gz ... Passed
modprobe.d ... Passed
license.patch ... Passed
semaphore.patch ... Passed
==> Extracting Sources...
-> Extracting hybrid-portsrc_x86_64-v5_100_82_111.tar.gz with bsdtar
==> Starting build()...
patching file src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 245 (offset 5 lines).
patching file src/wl/sys/wl_iw.h
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-3.0-ARCH'
make: *** No targets. Stop.
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-3.0-ARCH'
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting...
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==> Restart building broadcom-wl ? [y/N]
==> ------------------------------------
==>
So, I looked around to see if yaourt had left anything behind:
[motdef@titan ~]$ rmmod wl
ERROR: Module wl does not exist in /proc/modules
[motdef@titan ~]$ modprobe wl
FATAL: Could not read '/lib/modules/3.0-ARCH/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/wl.ko': No such file or directory
[motdef@titan ~]$ sudo modprobe -r wl
Password:
[motdef@titan ~]$ modprobe wl
FATAL: Error inserting wl (/lib/modules/3.0-ARCH/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/wl.ko): Operation not permitted
Apparently modprobe thinks it exists even though the related files don't. I tried rebooting, and now I'm getting errors there, too (sorry about the crude photograph, I couldn't work out how to send the errors to a file):
As I said earlier, b43 isn't compatible with my chipset anyway, so it's not a huge problem, but irritating nevertheless.
I'm really stuck for ideas. I'm not sure if the broadcom-wl package files are actually on my system or not, and I've no idea what's missing from the kernel folder, and what it's got to do with the b43 errors at startup. Any suggestions?
Last edited by mot.def (2011-10-28 11:26:03)

mot.def wrote:
I had b43 and ssb blacklisted, as the wiki suggested.
I just reinstalled Arch from scratch and set up broadcom-wl again. Got another kernel panic after doing "sudo modprobe wl" (and got a picture), and after that I started getting the familiar modprobe and yaourt error messages.
I'll start again and try using b43, though I did try it on my very first attempt and it definitely didn't want to work with the wireless card.
I had the same kernel panic after updating the broadcom-wl driver today. I removed the driver and am now using brcmsmac which is part of the kernel. Maybe you can check that out if its compatible with your card. (See the wiki for more details.)

How to connect my ipad to an ad-hoc network and access internet?

Tried many times.. Except the ipad all other devices could access the internet through ad-hoc network

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[Partially Solved] Error with bsdtar and symbolic links

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However, others might find my work-around useful, so I document it below.
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Last edited by Mac Tzu (2009-06-27 22:37:07)

Mac Tzu: No, you don't need to bridge networks in rc.conf/conf.d anymore. You just need to chose the setting in VirtualBox.
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