Can't get eth0 to work after fresh install .

AstarothMastemaRavenclaw · 2011-06-20 20:23:11

I just finished installing Arch; everything went well, with the exception of Networking .
When booting into the new system and logging in as root, I did ping www.google.com and the output was like 70+ tries at receiving data from google, although it did manage to find out gogole's IP address .

This is my Networking section, omitting the commented lines :

HOSTNAME="computer"

interface=eth0
address=
netmask=
gateway=

NETWORK_PERSIST="no"

*EDIT*

After posting this, I thought maybe I should try and see if pacman works, and I was able to properly -Syy and -Syu .
I also checked that "network" was in the rc.conf DAEMONS line .
ping still doesn't work, but I will try going on with the post-install configurations .

Last edited by AstarothMastemaRavenclaw (2011-06-20 20:32:37)

Mr.Elendig · 2011-06-20 20:34:45

dhcpcd eth0

Btw, if you did a core install from the 2010.05 iso, then the kernel might be too old for your hardware.

wojox · 2011-06-20 21:13:04

Here's my rc.conf networking section:

HOSTNAME="wojox-desktop"
eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(eth0)
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)

AstarothMastemaRavenclaw · 2011-06-20 21:27:11

I did try to dhcpcd eth0 and it said it was already set to a certain address . (Probably why I am able to use pacman ?)

And I did a core isntall from the 2011.06.10 .iso, which I checked to see if it had the right kernel for my hardware . (It does .)

@wojox:
I think that is the "old" method for setting up networking, but I might be mistaken .

Last edited by AstarothMastemaRavenclaw (2011-06-20 21:29:38)

fukawi2 · 2011-06-21 00:01:24

Try this debugging:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Debugging

ewaller · 2011-06-21 03:15:08

When you think the network should be working, could you run and post the output of:
ip link
and of
ip route
??

Mr.Elendig · 2011-06-21 14:59:21

If you can use pacman, then maybe it's just a dns problem?
Try setting the dns server to 4.2.2.2

@wojox
Outdated syntax, will stop working "soon", please see the news,

ewaller · 2011-06-21 15:22:12

Mr.Elendig wrote:

If you can use pacman, then maybe it's just a dns problem?
Try setting the dns server to 4.2.2.2

I was thinking that, except that he can look up the address of Google, the address of the mirror, and presumably is able to use tcp and udp to download packages based upon their URLS

I'm trying to figure out if something could be blocking ICMP packet echo requests.

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Can't get eth0 to work after fresh install .

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