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farchirook

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Registered: 2020-10-08

Posts: 20

[SOLVED] Can not connect to the internet

Hi All,
I have followed the Installation Guide and I have installed Arch Linux successfully including base, Linux, Linux Firmware, iwd, networkmanager and nano.
After the reboot on my fresh install I can login as root and get into iwctl to but when I try to connect to my WiFi it does not ask for a password. Also when I do ping archlinux.org it comes back with message Temporarily failure in name resolution. Does anyone know why is this happening and if there are any commands I should run to get it working. If you know any command lines that will fix it please let me know here if possible. Thank you.
Kind regards,
Farchirook

Last edited by farchirook (2020-12-21 02:24:12)

Koatao

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Registered: 2018-08-30

Posts: 98

Re: [SOLVED] Can not connect to the internet

Hello,

Welcome to Arch!

I have installed Arch Linux successfully including base, Linux, Linux Firmware, iwd, networkmanager and nano.

You have configured Iwd to work with NetworkManager, right ? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … Fi_backend

After the reboot on my fresh install I can login as root and get into iwctl to but when I try to connect to my WiFi it does not ask for a password.

So are you connected or not ? The passphrase could be stored somewhere and used automatically when you try to connect to your WiFi network.
Why not use nmcli (command line interface for NetworkManager) instead if you are using NetworkManager ?

To know if you are connected to your access point, you can use this command:

iw dev wlp7s0 link

(replace wlp7s0 by your device name).

If you are connected, you should have an IP address:

ip a show dev wlp7s0

(here again, replace wlp7s0 by your device name).

If you have an IP address, you should be connected to the internet at this point.

Also when I do ping archlinux.org it comes back with message Temporarily failure in name resolution

It means your system didn't manage to resolve archlinux.org to an IP address.
Does ping 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8 is google's DNS server) works ?

farchirook

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Registered: 2020-10-08

Posts: 20

Re: [SOLVED] Can not connect to the internet

1000000 thank you to you Koatao and people like you. Long live Arch Linux and helpful people like you. nmcli dev WiFi connect worked perfectly.
Just for my learning curve so in this case if I install networkmanager I do not in this case need iwd ?

Koatao

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Registered: 2018-08-30

Posts: 98

Re: [SOLVED] Can not connect to the internet

Your welcome.

Just for my learning curve so in this case if I install networkmanager I do not in this case need iwd ?

I don't know much about iwd (never userd it) and I don't use NetworkManger anymore (so my insight about those is limited), but I believe NM should suffice itself to handle most of the basic networking needs.

farchirook

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Registered: 2020-10-08

Posts: 20

Re: [SOLVED] Can not connect to the internet

Thank you Koatao. Will use NM and that’s it.

Lone_Wolf

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Registered: 2005-10-04

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Re: [SOLVED] Can not connect to the internet

For wireless support NM uses wpa_supplicant, but it can be configured to use iwd[1] .
Just don't start / enable wpa_supplicant or iwd related services, let NM take care of that

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ne … Fi_backend

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