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eizengan

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Registered: 2025-02-13

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[SOLVED] Unable to set up a network connection during install

Installing Arch for my first time, and am stuck on Connect to the Internet.

I believe I've successfully enabled the network interface. Here's the current state of affairs:

[rootfs ~]# ip link show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK> ...
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_code1 qlen 1000
    link/ether 9c:6b:00:94:bc:17 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
[rootfs ~]# ping archlinux.org
ping: bad address 'archlinux.org'

Additionally, when I log into my router it shows no wired clients. I have a wireless card I attempted to use as an alternative, but it doesn't appear anywhere I can see, and iwctl does not appear to be installed. Searching online/here mostly yielded results using software not available in the install image.

Any idea what's happening?

EDIT: In fact, several commands used in the install guide don't appear to be available, e.g.

which fdisk

displays nothing. Is something wrong with my install image?

Last edited by eizengan (2025-02-15 21:50:30)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to set up a network connection during install

What ISO are you using? Nothing there lines up with Arch's ISO.

Edit: That kind of looks like you're stuck in an initramfs. What messages do you see before the prompt?

Last edited by Scimmia (2025-02-15 21:12:17)

eizengan

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to set up a network connection during install

One downloaded from the MIT mirror. I verified the signature as described in the docs.

Last edited by eizengan (2025-02-15 21:23:54)

Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to set up a network connection during install

OK, so you edited while I was responding, then I edited in a response after your edit while you were responding again.

eizengan

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to set up a network connection during install

You know what? I'm just gonna double-post from now on to get us out of this edit-reply loop. Pulled from my edit above:

(sorry for the wait; lots of typing)

Upon reboot the following possibly-suspect messages are shown. Any smoking guns here?

[...] hub 10-0:1.0: config failed, hub doesn't have any ports! (err -19
)
...
::Triggering uevents...
[...] usb 1-5-port3: cannot reset (err= -110)
...
Waiting for 10 seconds for device /dev/disk/by-uuid/2025-02-01-08-29-13-00 ...
ERROR: Device '2025-02-01-08-29-13-00' not found
sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
[rootfs ~]#

I've got nothing but wiki-reading experience to go by, but that last line sounds like a failed attempt to mount a filesystem maybe?

Last edited by eizengan (2025-02-15 21:25:17)

Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to set up a network connection during install

Yes, that means the actual root fs never showed up. Most often this is caused by the method used to write the ISO to disk. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/USB_fl … ion_medium

eizengan

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to set up a network connection during install

Understood. I'll try recreating the install USB; quite possible I mishandled a step

eizengan

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Re: [SOLVED] Unable to set up a network connection during install

I remade the media using a different option from the list, and that seems to have done the trick.

Many thanks for pointing me in the right direction!