[SOLVED] Where did dhcpcd go? (Celebrating the utter fail)

justforgetme · 2012-10-21 17:59:43

So this is my first install of archLinux without the installation framework and it happened to be on a Macbook.
After having to wade through 10 or 20 mutually conflicting wiki articles (here, gentoo and the rest of the Internet) on how to produce a correct UEFI install and install medium I run packstrap as explained in the install wiki article and now I have a bootable system that does NOT HAVE A DHCP DAEMON?????

Why?
> `systemctl list-unit-files`
returns "dhcpcd@.service disabled"
which apparently is a thing that isn't what I need....

Last edited by justforgetme (2012-10-27 12:17:45)

hadrons123 · 2012-10-21 18:10:58

You can try dhclient instead.

karol · 2012-10-21 18:13:06

Have you tried starting that service? What output did you get?

justforgetme · 2012-10-21 18:16:13

@karol 'file does not exist'
@hadrons I'll give it a try...

WonderWoofy · 2012-10-21 19:19:46

I believe you have to do

# systemctl start dhcpcd@eth0.service

Services with the @ symbol in them mean that they require an argument. If you look in the service file itself, there are %I vairables that are replaced with whatever is after the @. So there are services that are intended to be started as the user that are like this so that you can specify what user to run it as without having the edit the service file itself.

justforgetme · 2012-10-27 10:46:22

Hey, hi.

No, that didn't do it either. The service is enabled now but the machine still won't request an ip automatically when you plug a cable in...

65kid · 2012-10-27 11:06:16

justforgetme wrote:

The service is enabled now but the machine still won't request an ip automatically when you plug a cable in...

For that to work you would need something like NetworkManager or netcfg's net-auto-wired.service.

Scimmia · 2012-10-27 11:06:48

Of course not! dhcpcd is nothing more than it says, a client daemon for dhcp. It's not going to watch your network interface for you and automatically do things. For that, you need a network management daemon, netcfg, wicd, networkmanager, etc.

justforgetme · 2012-10-27 12:16:13

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 7#p1161027
solved my problem...
I had everything.
The only thing I hadn't was that damned symlink....
Apparently when I enabled all my services networkmanager wasn't on my list.

Thanks everybody for helping.

Last edited by justforgetme (2012-10-27 12:16:46)

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#1 2012-10-21 17:59:43

[SOLVED] Where did dhcpcd go? (Celebrating the utter fail)

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Re: [SOLVED] Where did dhcpcd go? (Celebrating the utter fail)

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Re: [SOLVED] Where did dhcpcd go? (Celebrating the utter fail)

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Re: [SOLVED] Where did dhcpcd go? (Celebrating the utter fail)

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