Arch Linux

stealthy

Member

Registered: 2011-05-02

Posts: 67

Ethernet drivers

I attempted a install on my desktop computer (which already had Windows installed), and everything was going fine, until I did a pacman -Syu and updated everything. My ethernet refused to work. ifconfig revealed that eth0 was up but no packet transfer. I could not connect to the internet at all. I spend a good 3 hours on it trying to get it to work. Strangely when I did eth1 up, there was packet transfer but still no internet. I really really really like Arch as I have it on my laptop, and now I want it on my desktop. I'm pretty sure its a driver related problem. Would it be a good idea to buy a Arch compatible wifi/ethernet card? I do NOT want to go back to Ubuntu.

Any help is appreciated.

---

clipodder-git A small simple cron-friendly podcast downloader, with support for arbitrary user defined media types (pdf, html, etc...)

Mektub

Member

From: Lisbon /Portugal

Registered: 2008-01-02

Posts: 647

Re: Ethernet drivers

stealthy,

probably your network configuration is incorrect, but you don't give any clues.
Check: does the interface have a correct IP, DNS, default gateway.

Better, read:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network

Mektub

---

Follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/johnbina