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mcspanol

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From: Suisun City, CA, USA

Registered: 2013-10-27

Posts: 1

[SOLVED] Trying to install on Dell Inspiron 14 3451. Wireless network

Hey there everybody.  I would really love to get Arch up and running on my new Dell Inspiron 14 3451 laptop.

This laptop has no network port for a wired connection, so my only option is wireless.  In addition there is no optical drive so I am booting from USB.  I've installed Arch successfully on my old laptop before, but I didn't have to rely on wireless connectivity.

So I go through the wifi-menu, and I can see my network, enter the password and connect successfully.

When I try and ping the router:

ping -c 3 10.0.0.1
PING 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=2.15 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=2.18 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=1.71 ms

--- 10.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2003ms
rtt min/ave/max/mdev = 1.719/2.020/2.189/0.213 ms

When I try and ping Google:

ping -c 3 www.google.com
PING www.google.com (209.118.208.39) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- www.google.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2007ms

So it is obviously getting DNS info when pinging google since it resolves the IP address, but why can't I get a ping back?  I have tried the manual config instructions in the wiki already.  I can't figure out the problem.

UPDATE:  So I had an IP, but couldn't ping anything but my router.  Then out of shear frustration I ran the command dhcpcd.  Now I can ping google.  Weird.  So Nevermind!

Last edited by mcspanol (2015-08-08 04:07:50)