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To setup automatic wireless connection in Arch, I configured netcfg as directed in the Arch wiki. When I try:

[root@geckko ~]# netcfg adsl

it gives an error:

 > Profile "adsl" does not exist

The profile does exist as I have checked:

[root@geckko network.d]# ls
adsl  examples  hooks  interfaces

I googled and found this thread in the Arch forum but I'm pretty sure I haven't made the same mistake the author of that thread has made. How can I solve this issue?

Here's the profile:

CONNECTION='wireless'
DESCRIPTION='A simple WPA encrypted wireless connection'
INTERFACE='wlan0'
SECURITY='wpa'
ESSID='essid'
KEY='secretkey'
IP='dhcp'

And the permissions of the file:

Owner: root
Access: read and write

Group: root
Access: Read-only

Others: read-only

You are not the owner, so you cannot change these permissions.
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  • You will need to post your profile (with sensitive information removed, naturally) if you want help with this issue. Also, check the permissions on the file...
    – jasonwryan
    Commented Apr 30, 2011 at 8:01
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    It looks OK to me. Try creating another profile with a different name and seeing if you get the same error. Also, make sure you can connect manually.
    – jasonwryan
    Commented Apr 30, 2011 at 23:00
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    Tried creating a new profile and it worked :) Thanks. It seems I had created a directory for a profile instead of a file.
    – user3496
    Commented May 1, 2011 at 6:31
  • @SamratManSingh: could you post exactly what you did to resolve this as an answer?
    – Mat
    Commented Feb 26, 2012 at 15:25

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Try:

sudo netcfg adsl

since the owner and group is root.

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