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TheMiner1425

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Registered: 2023-11-16

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connected to wifi but no internet

when connecting to wifi during arch install everything went fine. After rebooting I figured out i did not have wifi firmware. Then, using iwd I connected to wifi. When I try to install neofetch or ping a website it says temporary failure in name resolution. Is there some way to fix this?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: connected to wifi but no internet

iwd itself only gives you a wifi connection, not an ip address by default: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Iwd#En … figuration

TheMiner1425

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Re: connected to wifi but no internet

after enabling it in the config I still don't have internet.

V1del

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Re: connected to wifi but no internet

Did you restart iwd and reestablish the connection after adjusting the config?

Post the output of

find /etc/systemd -type l -exec test -f {} \; -print | awk -F'/' '{ printf ("%-40s | %s\n", $(NF-0), $(NF-1)) }' | sort -f
sudo journalctl -b

redirect to a file and USB walk to an internet accessible system if need be.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_o … n_services

seth

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Re: connected to wifi but no internet

If that poses a problem there's also https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Tethering and

ip a
resolvectl status
stat /etc/resolv.conf
cat /etc/resolv.conf

will provide a limited amount of text for a brief overview.
If this absolutely must be, link an image - don't transcribe anything in there.

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TheMiner1425

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Re: connected to wifi but no internet

I ran the command and got output:

getty@tty1.service                       | getty.target.wants
iwd.service                              | multi-user.target.wants
NetworkManager-wait-online.service       | network-online.target.wants
NetworkManager.service                   | multi-user.target.wants
p11-kit-server.socket                    | sockets.target.wants
remote-fs.target                         | multi-user.target.wants
sshd.service                             | multi-user.target.wants

There was a lot more log output, way to much to include in this post. /etc/resolv.conf is empty, don't know if this is related.

Last edited by TheMiner1425 (2023-11-16 23:09:57)

seth

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Re: connected to wifi but no internet

/etc/resolv.conf is empty, don't know if this is related.

Yes.

You've at least NM & iwd enabled concurrently, pick one, disable the other. If you want to use iwd as NM backend, see https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … Fi_backend

Other than that, post the required ouptuts. V1del linked you how to paste the journal.
Can you use tethering?

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virusso80

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Re: connected to wifi but no internet

I am doing a fresh install today too
experienced the same issue.
in the network configuration of the installation guide there is a sentence that recalls you configure the local system. Don't skip it.
in addition to what others already noticed, please remember to configure the DNS, by using i.e. systemd-resolved, as written here and enable it using systemctl approach

Last edited by virusso80 (2023-11-17 22:00:52)