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jasewobble

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Registered: 2012-04-19

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[SOLVED] 2013.01.04 ISO: succesfully connected with 3G but DNS is down

1) I booted into the new Arch Linux ISO (2013.01.04 x86_64)
2) Succesfully switched my modem with usb_modeswitch
3) Succesfully connected with sakis3g

To my surprise, network is NOT up.

# ping google.com
ping: unknown host google.com

Yet sakis3g shows that I'm connected:

# sakis3g status
E173 connected to T-Mobile UK (23430).

How do I get the network up and running?

Cheers.

Last edited by jasewobble (2013-01-18 01:11:42)

WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED] 2013.01.04 ISO: succesfully connected with 3G but DNS is down

Have you set up your name servers in resolv.conf? Google's 8.8.8.8 should be enough.

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jasewobble

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Re: [SOLVED] 2013.01.04 ISO: succesfully connected with 3G but DNS is down

Have you set up your name servers in resolv.conf? Google's 8.8.8.8 should be enough.

I just checked resolv.conf and the name servers were indeed missing. After adding them, I was still was not able to ping google.com but I tried pinging 8.8.8.8 instead and it worked. Network is up but DNS for some reason isn't.

Edit: if I reconnect with sakis3g, the name servers disappear from resolv.conf.

Last edited by jasewobble (2013-01-18 00:32:40)

Trilby

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Re: [SOLVED] 2013.01.04 ISO: succesfully connected with 3G but DNS is down

Are you using (do you need to use) dhcpcd or dhclient?  I'm not familiar with sakis3g, but any other connection method, once you are connected, you still need to use dhcp client.

Last edited by Trilby (2013-01-18 01:00:47)

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jasewobble

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Registered: 2012-04-19

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Re: [SOLVED] 2013.01.04 ISO: succesfully connected with 3G but DNS is down

Are you using (do you need to use) dhcpcd or dhclient?  I'm not familiar with sakis3g, but any other connection method, once you are connected, you still need to use dhcp client.

# killall -9 dhcpd

It's working now! Cheers.