Arch Linux Wifi setup

[PYTH0N]

@Johnathan: /etc/resolv.conf opens up a file if I put nano in front of it. There is nothing in that file... should there be?

[Jonathan183]

resolv.conf should have information in ...

man resolv.conf

for more info

mirrorlist should have at least one mirror uncommented ... I'm in the UK and pacman can use 3 servers ...

# - Great Britain
#Server = http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.archlinux.org/$repo/os/i686
#Server = ftp://mirrors.uk2.net/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = http://archlinux.mirrors.uk2.net/$repo/os/i686
Server = ftp://mirror.lividpenguin.com/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/i686
Server = http://mirror.lividpenguin.com/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/i686

## Great Britain
#Server = ftp://mirror.lividpenguin.com/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
#Server = http://mirror.lividpenguin.com/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
#Server = ftp://mirror.cinosure.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
#Server = http://mirror.cinosure.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
#Server = ftp://mirrors.uk2.net/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
#Server = http://archlinux.mirrors.uk2.net/$repo/os/$arch

## Any
#Server = ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
#Server = http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch

Root is all powerful ... if you get accessed denied as root then you won't do any better as another user ... but be careful root is all powerful - so only login as root when you have to

I think if you have a server uncommented in mirrorlist the next thing to check is if you can ping a server ...
ping www.google.com
if that fails then try to ping an ip address directly
ping 173.194.66.103
which should get google.com

results should look something like this

PING 173.194.66.103 (173.194.66.103) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 173.194.66.103: icmp_req=1 ttl=47 time=53.7 ms
64 bytes from 173.194.66.103: icmp_req=2 ttl=47 time=48.3 ms
64 bytes from 173.194.66.103: icmp_req=3 ttl=47 time=54.5 ms
64 bytes from 173.194.66.103: icmp_req=4 ttl=47 time=48.5 ms

If all else fails then lets check the system startup information ... post the output of

cat /etc/rc.conf

so we can see how you are loading modules, have the network configured and deamons you are running ...