Wi-fi connection failing on Arch Linux

networking arch-linux wifi

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iwconfig is part of the wireless_tools package, and ifconfig is part of net-tools on my Arch laptop (relatively up-to-date). To install:

pacman -S wireless_tools  net-tools

It sounds like you need to educate yourself on the use of systemctl to start/stop the DHCP client service. My first guess after "bad cable" would be that dhcpcd isn't working correctly.

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Mitro

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Updated on September 18, 2022

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Mitro almost 2 years
I' ve just installed Arch Linux on my computer, I have some problems: If I write
```
# iwconfig
```
The result is
```
-bash: iwconfig: command not found
```
the same is with ifconfig instead if I try with
```
# wifi-menu
```
I have
```
Please install 'dialog' to use wifi-menu
```
I don't have a modem to connect wire. What should I do?
- Mitro over 11 years
  
  I' ve solved using a ethernet wire and writing dhcpcd than I tried to ping ping -c 3 www.google.it And I saw that now I'm connected ;)
- Mitro over 11 years
  
  Now I' m again disconnetted and I don' t know why, iwconfig still doesn't work
- Mitro over 11 years
  
  After dialog install the connection is fallen downl EDIT: MY ETH WIRE IS BROKEN -.-" but iwconfig??