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Roby

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From: Canada

Registered: 2013-12-13

Posts: 16

[SOLVED] Ping Error (Network seems to be connected)

Hello,

Fairly new Arch user here. Had it installed a while back but it seems this time around something isn't configured right.

I'm not sure what information is useful for troubleshooting this, but I have no problem providing whatever may be helpful.

I'm trying to get my wireless connection working.
I am apparently connected to my wireless network, but when I attempt to ping google.ca/com/etc. I get the error

ping: unknown host google.ca

When I try to ping 8.8.8.8 I get the error

connect: Network unreachable

I've read through some wireless wiki page info and I've been searching the forums but to be honest I'm a little bit lost for a starting point because I don't understand what's wrong in the first place (I seem to have a connection but can't connect to anything).

Any and all help is much appreciated.

Thanks!

Last edited by Roby (2014-10-30 19:14:46)

mauritiusdadd

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From: Benevento, Italy

Registered: 2013-10-27

Posts: 776

Re: [SOLVED] Ping Error (Network seems to be connected)

Hi Roby,

can you post the output of the following commands?

ip link
ifconfig

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Roby

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From: Canada

Registered: 2013-12-13

Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED] Ping Error (Network seems to be connected)

Absolutely

ip link (I left the other connection info out as I had to type this out manually. Please let me know if there was anything other than the wireless part of this output that might be needed)

wlp2s0: <BOARDCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 70:f1:a1:a3:2f:9e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

ifconfig

-bash: ifconfig: command not found

Last edited by Roby (2014-10-30 13:39:34)

Roby

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From: Canada

Registered: 2013-12-13

Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED] Ping Error (Network seems to be connected)

UPDATE:

I was following the wireless troubleshooting wiki again and running the following seems to allow me to ping google.ca now:

dhcpcd wlp2s0

I'm going to mess around a little bit more, get some stuff downloaded and I'll report back upon reboot to verify this is resolved.

Roby

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From: Canada

Registered: 2013-12-13

Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED] Ping Error (Network seems to be connected)

Seems to have worked after numerous reboots. Network is successfully connecting (automatically) each time.

Thanks for your reply mauritiusdadd