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b9anders

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Registered: 2007-11-07

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cannot get network to work properly on fresh install

I just got myself a new lenovo laptop and naturally wanted to instakll arch on it immediately.

The network I am on requires me to register the MAC address of the machine before I can access anything more than our intranet. Since this is done via a website, that is obviously difficult to do with arch, so I ran a mandriva livecd first to register it.

Quirk number one: I set up a new partition table and installed arch with grub. somehow one of these things actually changed my MAC address because I needed to reregister it and I could tell there it was a new one registered.

However, booting into arch again and I still can't get it to work properly. pinging our intranet address works fine, but I can't get to the www and so cannot install any new packages.

I've installed mandriva on a separate partition and here it all works fine. So the problem seems to be with Arch. My uneducated guess is that it somehow registers as having a different MAC address in arch, which of course creates a bit of a catch-22 because I can't install the packages needed to go to our intranet website and fix it (I should note - once I re-registered my mac address after creating a new partition table, I could complete a net-install of arch. but no internet access having booted into it).

Anyone know how I can fix this?

tuxce

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Registered: 2008-02-19

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Re: cannot get network to work properly on fresh install

actually, mac address doesn't change from one distribution to another
but you can check your mac address by using "ifconfig"
also verify if dns (/etc/resolv.conf) and route are well defined

Last edited by tuxce (2008-02-19 16:31:59)

b9anders

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Registered: 2007-11-07

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Re: cannot get network to work properly on fresh install

actually, mac address doesn't change from one distribution to another
but you can check your mac address by using "ifconfig"
also verify if dns (/etc/resolv.conf) and route are well defined

resolv.conf has

# Generated by dhcpcd for interface eth0
search rhk.dk
nameserver 172.20.0.42
nameserver 195.184.96.2

rhk.dk is our intranet. I don't know if those numbers mean anything's out of place.

tuxce

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Re: cannot get network to work properly on fresh install

this seems ok, you're sure that filter concerns only mac address?

Last edited by tuxce (2008-02-19 20:24:06)

b9anders

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Registered: 2007-11-07

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Re: cannot get network to work properly on fresh install

this seems ok, you're sure that filter concerns only mac address?

positive.

b9anders

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Registered: 2007-11-07

Posts: 691

Re: cannot get network to work properly on fresh install

I still need some help with this. As it it now, I cannot install arch linux properly on this laptop. No other distros have caused any hiccups with this, but it's arch I prefer,:/