SOLVED connect to wifi

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Guys how can I connect to wifi? Iwctl is not working and nmcli is also not working... Any other way?

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Are Wi-Fi drivers installed? What chipset do you have?

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I think installed

Network manager

After doing all things I rebooted my system

So now I want to connect to wifi

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Network Manager is not a Wi-Fi driver. You may need to install a Wi-Fi driver to use your specific Wi-Fi chipset.

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What is command to install it?

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration/Wireless#Device_driver

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Depends on the chipset

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Um how do I check what chipset I have?

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lsusb -v or lspci -k and try to find anything related to wireless

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration/Wireless#Check_the_driver_status

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Btw what does
adi-arch is not in the sudoers file
Means?

as I tried to enable network manager

adi-arch is name I kept as user

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It means you aren’t able to use sudo because of one or more of the following

• You are not in the wheel group
• The wheel group is not allowed to use sudo in your configuration

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Now what should I do? To use sudo?

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switch to root, run visudo, uncomment the line that lets you use sudo if you’re in the wheel group, and then add yourself to the wheel group.

You could also just switch to root and run whatever commands you want that way, but it’s less convenient and slightly easier to mess something up

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visudo: no editor found (editor path = /usr/bin/vi)

It says this

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Edit the config file directly using whatever editor you like then. I forgot the path, 1 sec.

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I have vi and nani

nano*

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Plain old Vi?

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Yes

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/etc/sudoers

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I can use nano

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su
nano /etc/sudoers
usermod -aG wheel yourusername

Like this ^

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Yes got it

Btw

Pacstrap thing only works in root?

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Pacstrap is for installing base packages to a new / (usually only during installation), do you mean pacman?

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Nono like I remember I used pacstrap yo install linux and linux-firmware
But it seems like pacstrap doesn't seems to be working but only in root

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That was during the installation, this is the real system now, right?

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Yes while installation

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pacman is used in the installed system, not pacstrap

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Pacstrap worked!

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Oh okk

Btw like I heard I need to install audio, video everything from scratch in arch in plasma.. can u tell me all list of imp packages? Which I should install?

I never used Linux before so sorry for all these dumb questions 🥲

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You should start with something like Fedora, not Arch.

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I've used popos

For um 10 days yes

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Oh

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so pacman is just like sudo-apt?

Like u know to install stuff

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The syntax is different, but yes, it's a package manager like apt

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Alright alright

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Gimme a min to type my reply to this

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Sure sure 😊

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Do you want to use Plasma on Xorg or Wayland

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Plasma

I've installed plasma btw as a someone on internet suggested me

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So plasma already works?

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I havnt got into it... I'm still on black terminal

I was just hoping to install some imp packages in terminal

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.

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Do I don't need ?

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So do you have sudo working now

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Plasma kde

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Yes yes

Its working

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Yes, on Xorg or Wayland though, or do you not know.

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Um which one would be better for me?

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I've never done plasma on Wayland so I can't really help with that

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Probably Xorg since you're new to this, and there's better compatability

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Alright I'll go with xorg

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Do you want to get networking or plasma working first?

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I'm connected to internet already..as my sudo worked I enabled my network manager and started it

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So wifi fully works now?

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yes

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great!

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I can Install things yes yes

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Onto plasma...

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Like I just installed plasma after wifi worked

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Do you want to use a graphical login or log in via the TTY and then start plasma yourself?

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Oh, ok

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Maybe Graphical
As now I'm in arch

Gui

plasma

I can see apps and desktop

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Run sudo pacman -S --needed sddm

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Oh wait so you're in plasma now?

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It's up to date

Yes I'm in now!!

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Oh so everything is just working, and you enabled a display manager at some point?

like sddm

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Um I think I did

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Oh, then you should be good, assuming you also have proper drivers

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I ran these commands

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Yea, that's right

You could've just used the second one

Is there anything else you want explained or need help with?

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um btw how do i take screen shot?

prt sc is not working

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Install a screenshot tool. I think KDE has one built-in.

You may need to manually bind it to prt sc in settings

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btw i cant hear anything

no sound.. how to fix that?

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Make sure pulseaudio is installed and running (or pipewire if you prefer)

.aw pulseaudio

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Arch Wiki: Pulseaudio

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pulseaudio

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i prefer nothing 😅 as i have 0 info about any of em'
which one would be best for me?

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Probably pulse for the same reasons as xorg

tried and true

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sudo pacman -S pulseaudio

i installed this

but still cant hear anything

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Run it too

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btw

when i run it

and when i close termianl

sound dissappears again

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Run it with commandname &

then press enter

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no but do i need to open termianl and run this command to hear any sound?

what if my friend is using my laptop and they dont know about this

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No

No

1 sec

I'm juggling rn

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... close

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