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rasr11

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Registered: 2012-03-26

Posts: 39

[Solved]Can't set my dsl broadband connection working in archlinux.

Hi all,

This is my first time installation of Archlinux. I've installed the "base"  packages without any problem.
Now I want my internet connection to work properly. So I first ran the "pppoe-setup" and then dial the connection by "pppoe-start" which says I'm connected. when I execute pppoe-status I can see a valid ip is assigned to my by my ISP.
But when I try to do anything which needs this connection, does not work. I tried to ping google by "ping -c 3 www.google.com" which says "unknown host".
I have no idea what has gone wrong. Please help.

Last edited by rasr11 (2012-03-27 15:45:35)

Terra-byte

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Registered: 2012-03-25

Posts: 11

Re: [Solved]Can't set my dsl broadband connection working in archlinux.

Did you enter your DNS settings correctly? Try pinging an IP address directly.

ping 8.8.8.8

rasr11

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Registered: 2012-03-26

Posts: 39

Re: [Solved]Can't set my dsl broadband connection working in archlinux.

Thank you Terra-byte for you reply.
When I ping 8.8.8.8, it shows "destination net unreachable".

In /etc/rc.conf I changed my "HOSTNAME=archie"
interface=eth0
address=
netmask=broadcast=
gateway=

& my /etc/hosts looks like:-
127.0.0.1         loca;host.localdomain                localhost archie

My broadband is a dynamic ip. so my ISP allocates my new ip & DNS server name automatically.
I don't know what to do next

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [Solved]Can't set my dsl broadband connection working in archlinux.

& my /etc/hosts looks like:-
127.0.0.1         loca;host.localdomain                localhost archie

probably a typo, but it should be localhost.localdomain .

check your /etc/resolv.conf , it should look something like this :

# Generated by dhcpcd from eth0
# /etc/resolv.conf.head can replace this line
domain fritz.box
nameserver 192.168.178.1
# /etc/resolv.conf.tail can replace this line

try pinging the address shown behind nameserver .

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rasr11

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Registered: 2012-03-26

Posts: 39

Re: [Solved]Can't set my dsl broadband connection working in archlinux.

Thank you Lone_wolf
changing the resolv.conf did the trick