[SOLVED]New Arch install, cannot run ip command to set up wireless

Hello all.
I'm new to Arch, but not to linux. I'm moving over from Ubuntu. I manually paritioned my hard drive and got an Arch dual boot with windows 7 working. Right now I'm trying to get my wireless set up, but when i run "ip link set wlan0 up" I got the error "Bash: command not found"
Using some things I found reseearching the problem, i rran "whereis ip" and got /usr/share/man/man7/ip.7.gz, so I made a symbolic link, /usr/bin/ip to this file, but now I get the error "Permission denied" when I run ip. (I am logged in as root by the way)
Apologies for the newbie question, and thank you for the help.
Last edited by okaylol (2011-07-22 01:32:28)

The only thing I can think of is that you don't have ip installed somehow.
I'm not sure what package it's in, but search around with pacman -Ss for networking stuff in core.
You'll eventually want netcfg for easier wireless setup, if you don't already have it.
That symlink you made was the wrong thing to do. You found the man page, which is not executable.
So when you try to run ip, your actually trying to run the manpage, which is why you get permission denied.
Even root can't run things that aren't programs.
You can probably find everything you need in the wiki. Good Luck.

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Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
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I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
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Sleep is for the weak.
So I've read that article and found what the issue was.
Turns out I automatically followed previous advise without giving it some thought and run mkinitcpio from Virtualbox. Which does not make sense because the whole point of this is to prepare kernel image to run on other hardware than provided by VM. So what I did to fix this:
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3. Run mkinitpcio -p linux
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5. Adjusted /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg to work with new configuration:
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5.2 add proper systemd init path APPEND=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd
And it does work - I'm posting from my new shiny system. Thanks a lot ackt1c!

How I Got Boxee Working On A New Arch Install -- 3/12/2011

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I need help making a new Arch install ISO

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Cannot run linux commands since Snow Leopard upgrade

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New Install cannot run applications

I've installed Arch in many systems usually with little to no problem, but this one takes the price.
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I used the 64 bit version (but I do not think that really matters) and everything seemed well.
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What people do in the Arch community? I'm sure I'm not alone in this quest... [looking worried ...] or am I
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[SOLVED] Sluggish database update times since new Arch install

Hi guys, this time I write to ask something about pacman that i find unusual.
Happens that I decided to reinstall my Arch like 2 months ago, and since then pacman takes a real longer time that it used to just to sync the databases, to be more accurate this sluggishness presents not when the progress bar is downloading the new DB, but between DB downloads (e.g. it takes about minute from the time it finishes downloading the core DB to when it starts to download the extra DB.)...
Any ideas?
Thanks for the support.
Last edited by LTSmash (2008-03-27 03:08:53)

ibendiben wrote:
Try using rankmirrors to set up a good number of the fastest mirrors for your location, for me this changes everything!
I live in europe so I first delete every other mirror in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, then I enable all leftover mirrors and run:
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for several times and replace the resulting 'overall top-listed mirrors' list in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
Hope this does the trick for you too!
ps. You need python to use rankmirrors, I recommend you read the rankmirror man-page for further options
Well, it seems to me that this solved the problem. I had uncommented some lines at Czech Republic but live in Mexico, so that was lagging the pacman operations a lot. But now its fast as usual.
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[ SOLVED ] Partition Sizes For New Arch Install ?

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Last edited by whitetimer (2010-11-15 09:58:47)

+1 on KlavKalashj's advice!
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[SOLVED] Copy packages from current Arch install to new Arch install

Hello!
I'm new to Arch, so that's why I'm posting in the newbie corner. I've been looking everywhere for an answer to this: I want to do a fresh install of my system, but my internet connection is sort of messed up right now (unusually slow). I noticed that every package I have installed on my current Arch are saved in /var/cache/pacman/pkg. Could I make a backup of that directory onto another partition on my hard drive, reinstall Arch, and restore the backup to that same directory in the new install? Would pacman "think" it's already downloaded and skip the download step alltogether?
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karol wrote:
From the repo-add manpage: 'repo-add [-q] <path-to-db> <package1> [<package2>...]'
This should create the dbs you need.
Honestly, *I* think, that the manpage is enough and you don't need the wiki (in this case at least).
You know what, do a test, pick a couple packages, copy them somewhere and create a tiny local repo.
Awesome! I managed to make pacman read the package db I created using add-repo.
I added the repo to the pacman.conf. Had to do a little trial & error to figure out I had to put it like this:
[name of db file]
Server = file:///path/to/folder_of_db partition
I was trying to put the file.db.tar.gz complete rute. Of course, pacman let me know with an error that wasn't right.
I tried installing something simple, like wine. First, I did a sudo pacman -Scc to clear the cache. Then I did sudo pacman -S wine. It installed successfully! I'm gonna try with a fresh install this afternoon. I'll let you know of the result.
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New arch install, scanner problems still persist.

Alright now officially under arch after spending a night configuring it and such (still dual booting antergos as a fallback though just in case things go weird) but alas my scanner issue that I have with my HP ENVY 4500 scanner/printer still persists.
After browsing though documentation and reading up I am still unable to solve this rather strange issue with my scanner.
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/sane
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Err thats the thing I am not getting error messages that can give me clues, just generic "device not found" or "no devices found" messages so some help that is
If it gave me more info I would have shared it, but no even command line gives no real complex feedback other then "no devices found"
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I am just stuck without no other clues on to why hplip-gui works but nothing else does
Its not a firewall or permissions error I checked that bit
Its not like this device is incompatible, works without a hitch in Ubuntu and its sane is the same as the one in arch.
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[Solved]ACPI Handler.sh not running xbacklight command (UL30A)

Hey,
First off, I apologize if this was covered anywhere already, but I wasn't able to find a solution that worked for me yet. My problem is that I have an acpi handler.sh script configured to run xbacklight -set 15 on battery, and -set 100 on AC, yet it doesn't do so. The command works for me from my user account, and all the other settings from the handler.sh file are applied (as far as I can tell). Is it something simple I've overlooking? Is there a better way to do so without gnome-power-manager, or laptop-mode-tools (don't work for me)?
ACPI packages I have installed:
acpi
acpi-support
acpid
I also have acpid and acpi-support in my rc.conf daemons array.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
Lswest
Handler.sh file:
#!/bin/sh
# Default acpi script that takes an entry for all actions
# NOTE: This is a 2.6-centric script. If you use 2.4.x, you'll have to
# modify it to not use /sys
minspeed=`cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_min_freq`
maxspeed=`cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq`
setspeed="/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_setspeed"
set $*
case "$1" in
button/power)
#echo "PowerButton pressed!">/dev/tty5
case "$2" in
PWRF) logger "PowerButton pressed: $2" ;;
*) logger "ACPI action undefined: $2" ;;
esac
button/sleep)
case "$2" in
SLPB) echo -n mem >/sys/power/state ;;
*) logger "ACPI action undefined: $2" ;;
esac
ac_adapter)
case "$2" in
AC)
case "$4" in
00000000)
echo -n $minspeed > $setspeed;
xbacklight -set 15;
hciconfig hci0 down;
/etc/rc.d/bluetooth stop;
rmmod hci_usb;
ifconfig eth0 down;
echo min_power >> /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/link_power_management_policy;
echo 1500 >> /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs;
00000001)
echo -n $maxspeed > $setspeed;
xbacklight -set 100;
ifconfig eth0 up;
modprobe hci_usb;
hciconfig hci0 up;
/etc/rc.d/bluetooth start;
echo max_performance >> /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/link_power_management_policiy
echo 500 >> /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
esac
*) logger "ACPI action undefined: $2" ;;
esac
battery)
case "$2" in
BAT0)
case "$4" in
00000000) #echo "offline" >/dev/tty5
00000001) #echo "online" >/dev/tty5
esac
CPU0)
*) logger "ACPI action undefined: $2" ;;
esac
button/lid)
#echo "LID switched!">/dev/tty5
pm-suspend;
logger "ACPI group/action undefined: $1 / $2"
esac
Last edited by lswest (2010-07-19 21:45:43)

Whatever variation of xbacklight I give in I get the following:
No outputs have backlight property.
I had the same issue originally with KMS and the intel driver.
Found a solution that works for me:
asus-laptop (kernel module) introduces a few new settings and features to the kernel for asus laptops. One of which is to create a brightness file for the LED Monitor (didn't exist for my Asus UL30A), where it then sets the brightness. Not sure if breaking xbacklight was intended or not, but for anyone experiencing the same problem, echo 0-15 (15=max brightness) in handler.sh (it should work, haven't yet gotten it to do so though) to this file: /sys/devices/platform/asus_laptop/backlight/asus_laptop/brightness, in order to automatically adjust brightness levels. Brightness keys work as before.
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Coming from Ubuntu and very dissatisfied with performance I am very excited for Arch.
I followed the newb guide to a T, everything went smooth as butter.
after the guide was finished I installed Gnome3
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Went perfect. I try and login to the user I created while going thru the guide and instantly boot into the basic X environment?
So I thought perhaps I should try adduser after I installed Gnome3 and now when logging into that new user, the screen goes black for 2sec then
greets me with this message (still in command):
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Aug 12 22:46:05 2011
(==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
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(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled.
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(EE) Logitech G500: failed to initialize for relative axes.
xinit: connection to X server lost
Any ideas as to what's going on?
Last edited by PumpkinJack (2011-08-13 20:59:07)

Durden wrote:Did you install GDM? How are you launching X? What groups is the user in?
Thanks for the reply.
Yeah I installed GDM after gnome, everything works great for root.
im using startx to launch X
Just using the default group per newbie guide instructions which I believe is users

[Solved]Portable Arch install

I have an Arch 64bit install on my laptop. The laptop had some hardware problem so I need to send in the laptop for repair.
I want to take the hard drive, plug it in another laptop and boot into my existing install.
1. Can this be done?
2. What do I need to do to get this done?
3. What are the limitations of this, ie when can't I do this?
Thanks for your answers.
Last edited by lamdacore (2011-09-02 14:06:44)

lamdacore wrote:Also why always the fallback?
Because the normal kernel contains drivers only for your previous machine in the initramfs image. Now that you're on your new machine, you can create a new image with mkinitcpio. Or continue running the fallback kernel.

Ethernet card doesn't work with new arch install?

Hi guys,
so this is kinda my first post, not that I'm new to arch i just never had an issue i couldn't figure out on my own... But i love arch i have been using it for about a year now and have had no serious problems except for this. I have had arch running on an older dell vostro 200 desktop before i reinstalled with a vary similar issue except that the fix i came up with doesn't work anymore. I will tell you about the first issue first because i ALMOST posted on here about it originally but i figured out a way to make it work even though it was a hassle.
After cold/rebooting my computer the network card doesn't work at all. lspci reported that the kernel module e1000e was the correct one (i have verified this) and that the kernel has loaded it, i verified that with dmesg but still it wouldn't work. After much much anguish and hairpulling, I realized that it had to have something to do with the module so i tried forcing it to reload with rmmod e1000e and modprobe e1000e and it still wouldn't work until i physically unpluged the ethernet cord and pluged it back in until the light on the NIC turned on. After that everything works as normal i could even unplug and plug it back in with no problems. So eventually i wrote a script that did this for me (except for the uplugging and plugging part) and i used that when i cold/rebooted.
But now i have the exact same issue after reinstalling arch to the T except for the fact that the (crazy) fix i came up with doesn't work now. I used my "fix" after booting from the arch cd and it worked just like it always has. And now after rebooting into my fresh system the fix doesn't work anymore. So now i'm back where i was to begin with but i have no idea what to try next. I didn't do anything particularly different during installation except i added a udev rule for the e1000e module just to see if somehow that would fix the problem... it didnt and i have since deleted that (to see if it was the problem). The only other thing that is different is the root and home are now btrfs partitions instead of ext4.
I have booted several other live cds and dvds (diferent distros) including arch derivatives such as manjaro and they all worked just fine, using the same kernel module (e1000e). I'm not sure what that could mean but i know that it means there is a fix for this some way or another. I am going to hook up a wifi adapter and connect that computer to the internet to put some more information up if it's needed (asked for) but for now lspci -vnn | grep -i -A 10 net reports
00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82562V-2 10/100 Network Connection [8086:10c0] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device 0238
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 42
Memory at fdfc0000 (32-bit non-prefetchable) [size=128k]
Memory at fdfff000 (32-bit non-prefetchable) [size=4k]
I/0 ports at ff00 [size=32]
Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information: Len=06 <?>
Kernel driver in use: e1000e
Kernel modules: e1000e
ip a reports:
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: enp0s25: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:1d:09:8c:36:f6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: wlp0s29f7u3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 64:66:b3:16:92:10 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 172.16.1.55/16 brd 172.16.255.255 scope global wlp0s29f7u3
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::6666:b3ff:fe16:9210/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
lsmod | grep e1000e
e1000e 215644 0
ptp 17692 1 e1000e
any help on what to do next would be greatly appreciated.
Last edited by mvheart/dev/null (2014-08-18 04:02:12)

Sorry I was thinking that it was say "state up" after that, I was looking in the wrong place... It's been a long time since I was playing around with this. So it is as i thought it was before?
[aaron@arch-box Arch-Linux]$ sudo systemctl start [email protected]
[sudo] password for aaron:
Job for [email protected] failed. See 'systemctl status [email protected]' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
[aaron@arch-box Arch-Linux]$ systemctl status -l [email protected]
● [email protected] - dhcpcd on enp0s25
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected]; disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2014-08-18 11:20:29 EDT; 4min 11s ago
Process: 17650 ExecStart=/usr/bin/dhcpcd -q -w %I (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Aug 18 11:19:59 arch-box dhcpcd[17650]: version 6.4.3 starting
Aug 18 11:19:59 arch-box dhcpcd[17650]: enp0s25: adding address fe80::ae3:ee04:7099:77c5
Aug 18 11:19:59 arch-box systemd[1]: Starting dhcpcd on enp0s25...
Aug 18 11:19:59 arch-box dhcpcd[17650]: enp0s25: waiting for carrier
Aug 18 11:20:29 arch-box systemd[1]: [email protected]: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Aug 18 11:20:29 arch-box systemd[1]: Failed to start dhcpcd on enp0s25.
Aug 18 11:20:29 arch-box systemd[1]: Unit [email protected] entered failed state.
Last edited by mvheart/dev/null (2014-08-18 15:50:10)

[SOLVED] How to install and run (on debian) a separate, downlevel version of firefox for the F5/firepass VPN?

(Note: my problem is similar to [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/931534?e=es&as=aaq another current problem] except that
* OP is running windows (I'm running a debian linux)
* OP is asking a more general question (how to fix?) while I'm asking for details on a proposed fix)
I'm currently running
$ lsb_release -ds
Linux Mint Debian Edition
$ cat /etc/debian_version
wheezy/sid
$ uname -rv
3.2.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Mar 4 22:48:17 UTC 2012
$ iceweasel --version
Mozilla Iceweasel 13.0.1
I'd like to continue running an uplevel iceweasel ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_rebranded_by_the_Debian_project which is firefox]) but apparently need to run a downlevel version in order to run a particular vendor-supplied plugin. How best to do that (i.e., with minimal performance degradation, and without affecting my package management)? Or is there another way to solve the general problem (running the F5 Network Access Plugin)? Why I ask:
My employer is giving me remote access via a SecurID token and the F5 Network Access Plugin (F5NAP). The latter is in fact a browser plugin, which seems to me an odd way to implement a VPN, but it's the only offered option. Unfortunately,
* the only browsers supported for linux are Firefox 3 and Firefox 8 (per [http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_apm/manuals/product/apm_compatibility_matrix_10_2_1.html this]--scroll to "Linux Operating Systems")
* my primary laptop runs LMDE (see above) with Iceweasel 13 (from the mozilla.debian.net repository), which I want to keep. (It's the uplevel browser, dammit !-)
So I first tried to install the F5NAP on my iceweasel, hoping it was sufficiently like the listed versions. I browsed to my employer's site, logged in using the token, and followed the link to install the plugin. Unfortunately, that failed: the xpi began running, but then quit with the message
> F5 Network Access Plugin could not be installed because it is not compatible with Iceweasel 13.0.1
Hoping for a simple workaround, I told the often-useful User Agent Switcher plugin to emulate Firefox 8, but no fix. Hence it seems like I will hafta
* install Firefox 3 or Firefox 8
* run that downlevel browser whenever I want remote access
* run the uplevel browser for everything else
This definitely seems like a kludge, so I am open to alternatives. Meanwhile I'm wondering:
# Which of the F5-supported downlevel browsers (Firefox 3 or Firefox 8) has the smaller memory footprint?
# How to install the downlevel browser so that it does not interfere with my uplevel browser's configuration, operation, and updating via debian package management?
# How to run the downlevel browser so that its operation does not interfere with my uplevel browser? I know firefox typically wants to run singleton.

@[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/user/160087 verdi]: thanks for your helpful suggestions. The "fix" (actually a kludge, but I gotta work with what F5 and my employer give me) was:
# Install/run latest Firefox 3 (despite there being [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/932269 no 64-bit version for linux]) using [https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzDAFHgIxRzKbmJDUGZqTzhfbDg this bash scriptlet].
# Create a [https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzDAFHgIxRzKQjRyQndqUTJpRXM run script] to start firefox so that one can
#* choose the appropriate profile (I was unable to set it from the script without startup error)
#* run multiple instances (I don't want 3.x firefox touching my uplevel profile)
# Run Firefox 3.x with the runner, then point it to my employer's site to install the [http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_apm/manuals/product/apm_compatibility_matrix_10_2_1.html F5 Network Access Plugin] (restarting firefox as required).
The gnome-terminal tab from which I invoke the runner spews a bazillion "wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64" errors, but the plugin runs, and I can SSH normally (though more slowly) to servers on the VLAN from another terminal tab.

[SOLVED]New Arch install, cannot run ip command to set up wireless

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