As I mentioned in the last post, I re-installed Arch onto my laptop. This went very well, and quickly–everything really fell into place. I was going by the beginner’s guide, as detailed previously, but it was not really needed this time.
Where I left off last time, Xorg was installed and I was about to install Gnome. That went well enough, although I had to re-rank my mirrors and put the most updated first as there was some kind of discrepancy with some that had not been sync’ed in a few days.
I then started having problems with…wireless, of all things. It would work manually:
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid x key xxxx
dhcpcd wlan0
On boot, however it would not work. Oddly enough, I had done all of the updating and everything to this point on a wired connection…all of a sudden, the wired connection won’t work, either.

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