WiFi difficulties with a RTL8111/RTL8168 card

I'm attempting to set up Arch Linux on my Vaio S series laptop. I'm having difficulty getting the wireless to work, however. I've been following the wiki but it still doesn't want to cooperate. My card is not listed on the wiki but I'm fairly sure udev is loading a driver for it. wlan0 shows up under "ip link" and if I look at lspci it says it's using the iwlagn driver. When I try to bring the interface up, however, I get this error:
https://www.evernote.com/shard/s97/sh/5 … 77ad6922bc
Not sure how I should proceed from here. I already tried using rfkill as the wiki suggests to no avail

Can you give the output of lspci, iwconfig and ifconfig wlan0 up
If you cannot bring up your wifi card you can download the driver on the realtek website -> Wifi Driver
Then you compile & install it as root and you modprobe the kernel module of your wifi card.
Last edited by vcottineau (2012-07-24 09:58:22)

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