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Hi! I am trying to install Arch32 on the old foxconn qbox n270 PC. I'm a linux noobie (I use mint as my primary system on my laptop and that's about it), so I thought trying to install Arch on this old machine would be a great opportunity to expand my knowledge about linux.
I am following official Arch wiki installation guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Installation_guide
I made it to step 1.7: Connect to the internet. My machine has a WiFi adapter and I cannot use wired connection with my current setup, so I tried following instructions on this page and connect to wireless network using iwctl. However, my attempts weren't successful.
For some reason, I am unable to connect to my WiFi network with "iwctl station wlan0 connect SSID" where SSID is the name of my network. Roughly 2 seconds after I enter the password it outputs "Operation failed". Yes, I checked that the password is correct. I also tried "iwctl --passphrase my_password station wlan0 connect SSID" where my_password is my password, but it outputted the same result. I thought there is a problem with drivers or the hardware itself, but when I tried to connect to my phone's WiFi using the same command, it worked. I don't know what is the difference between those 2 networks from computer's perspective and I'm really confused. Any ideas why something like this can be happening? Any help is greatly appreciated.
I don't really know what else I should post here, but I can provide output of any terminal commands if needed.
Last edited by Blueberry7953 (2023-08-09 11:07:10)
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I would check the wlan model: Realtek WLAN Mini-PCIe IEEE 802.11b/g, LAN RJ45 10/100MBit/s, Bluetooth
(https://pc-woelfl.de/foxconn-qbox-n270-netbox-testbericht/, sorry, German).
Maybe check on another Linux dristro with `lspci` and `lsmod` what hardware and what kernel modules
you have loaded, when the wlan is working.
The Arch32 ISO is minimalistic in the sense, that it might lack some firmware blobs. :-)
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Realtek WLAN Mini-PCIe IEEE 802.11b/g
I figured it out! Key phrase here is "b/g". Solution was simple: I had to switch "Wireless mode" from "802.11 N" to "802.11 B/G/N mixed" in my router settings. Looks like my hardware just doesn't support 802.11 N standard, so it definitely isn't Arch problem. I was able to connect without any trouble after changing this setting.
I feel kinda dumb, I should've checked this earlier. I will mark my question as solved. Thanks for your help!
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