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Wireless configuration in Arch Linux from Command line

WARNING: Please refer the Arch Wiki for more information on wireless configuration using netcfg tool which makes your life more easier than this. This HOWTO may help you in understanding the behind the hood stuff. Issue background Last week I installed Arch Linux in my Toshiba Satellite A80 laptop. You know that Standard Arch Linux installation does not provide complete desktop packages. Once installation done, we use to end up in well structured basic OS with configuration tools. So ...
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Arch Linux: Kernel panic after update – a solution

I am a most impressed Arch Linux user. It is best suited for my low end system. My system is PIII-800MHz/192MB/Intel-82815. After recovery of /home files from lost partition, I cleaned up all my system partitions for fresh and compact installation of Arch Linux. In last 5 months experience in Arch Linux, I tested with a lot of applications installed. Now I know what I need. So I went for fresh Arch installation, otherwise you need not to install Arch to become current version. pacman -Syu will d...
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Review: Arch Linux 0.7.2

Why Arch Linux? When the life goes smooth, we get bored. When everything goes smooth we need some challenge to face and conquer. This is applicable for Linux distribution world also. After started admiring with Ubuntu, I did not want to be locked with it. I test a distribution only if it is having some unique feature in it. Zenwalk is one such promising. Here is my review on it. I came to know about Arch, which is optimized for i686 processors, so it is meant for recent generation of processors...
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