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So long story short I’m attempting to install arch 32bit onto my cf-29 laptop (snowpeicer prop) I’m only wanting to run ruffle to run the swf files that I recovered that the show used. Windows 7 isn’t cutting it with 512mb of ram for the one file.
So using a cd to boot, I get to the point of searching for wireless internet, it recognizes the wifi card and when I run the command to scan for networks it’ll eventually time out.
My guess is the laptop is so old it can’t run this fast enough to surpass the default 25 second timeout that arch uses. So my question for two options are:
-Can I Ethernet to the laptop so I can bypass using wireless internet? (I may end up still running into timeout issues later on different things)
-Is there a way to directly modify how long the timeout is? (If laptop needs 75 seconds to run process, I can change timeouts to be 120 seconds)
Last edited by Glasgowmg (2025-05-14 12:20:36)
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Connecting an ethernet and doing a 'dhlient' directly should almost always work.
systemd-networkd and netctl, Networkmanager can be a little bit tricky. You can also try iwf or wpa_supplicant directly (there should
be docu on the Arch wiki sowhere). At least you see error messages then..
I had a really old Wifi which had unknown channel (domain) information, that's also something to consider.
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