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lukvdl

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Registered: 2026-04-03

Posts: 3

WiFi setup.

Hello,

I recently installed following on an external SSD :

Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 6.6.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.24.0
Qt Version: 6.11.0
Kernel Version: 6.19.10-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 4600G with Radeon Graphics
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.0 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics

: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    RX:  bytes packets errors dropped  missed   mcast           
         28.6k      70      0       0       0       0
    TX:  bytes packets errors dropped carrier collsns           
         28.6k      70      0       0       0       0

2: enp3s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 9c:6b:00:0b:27:e5 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    altname enx9c6b000b27e5
    inet 192.168.68.112/24 brd 192.168.68.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute enp3s0
       valid_lft 5036sec preferred_lft 5036sec
    inet6 2a02:1811:ce16:b600:b7c5:f889:ab55:6d7d/128 scope global dynamic noprefixroute
       valid_lft 216036sec preferred_lft 43236sec
    inet6 2a02:1811:ce16:b600:f524:5546:8016:e3c7/64 scope global dynamic noprefixroute
       valid_lft 222484sec preferred_lft 49684sec
    inet6 fe80::21fa:dbc0:2fcd:15c4/64 scope link noprefixroute
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    RX:  bytes packets errors dropped  missed   mcast           
         7.21M   13.1k      0       9       0     196
    TX:  bytes packets errors dropped carrier collsns           
         2.06M   8.61k      0       0       0       0

160: wlan80: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether f6:5a:43:40:63:f6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff permaddr 50:3e:aa:62:ac:37
    RX:  bytes packets errors dropped  missed   mcast           
           602       5      0       0       0       0
    TX:  bytes packets errors dropped carrier collsns           
           288       2      0       0       0       0

What to do to set up WiFi on my PC ?

Thanks in advance for your reply.
Best regards.

Scimmia

Fellow

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,712

Re: WiFi setup.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … n/Wireless

lukvdl

Member

Registered: 2026-04-03

Posts: 3

Re: WiFi setup.

Thanks. Hopefully it works !

Scimmia

Fellow

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,712

Re: WiFi setup.

Add in the more general https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration too, as it talks about network management daemons more.

lukvdl

Member

Registered: 2026-04-03

Posts: 3

Re: WiFi setup.

Hello,

Seems to me, as a beginner, quite complicated.
Is it not possible to present me a more step-by step approach on what exactly to do ?
Should it be done by starting the iso bootable USB and then go on with root@archiso~#, or ... ?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 74,654

Re: WiFi setup.

There's nothing complicated about that - you will make have a choice about what you want to use to configure your network. Nobody can do that for you.
Since you've ethernet, there'll be *something* doing that right now - what is that? Do you want to keep it?
Once you made up your mind, if you need to install some packages for network configuration you need an internet connection.
You 'd only need to invoke the install iso if you would not have an ethernet connection nor could use https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Tethering

If you struggle with a specific step that is NOT "what do I want?" feel free to explicitly ask "how do I do…?"
Get used to reading and understanding the wiki. If you want a "click-to-install-and-run" system, arch is the wrong choice.

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