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kd6-37

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[Solved]Help me with my network connection.

Hello! I have problems accessing the internet through my absolutely bare bones Arch Install.
When I try to ping a webserver such as google.com, I get

ping: google.com: Temporary failure in name resolution

Then I tried "ping 8.8.8.8", which reads

ping: connect: Network is unreachable

My final attempt was to ping my standard gateway, 192.168.178.1, which gave me the same output.

ip a reads

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKOWN group default qlen
      link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
      inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
            valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
      inet6 ::1/128 scope host
            valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp0s31f6: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
            link/ether 30:9c:23:8c:04:47 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

ip r returns nothing.

I am really stumped. This is my first ever installment of arch, I am a total newb and it is frustrating that I cant even download any packages onto this barebones nothing. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Also, I know that  this machine is network capable. It runs on dual-boot with windows and my windows machine has wonderful internet via ethernet.

Last edited by kd6-37 (2020-08-08 15:40:32)

Trilby

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Re: [Solved]Help me with my network connection.

What networking services are you running / how are you trying to establish a connection?

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WorMzy

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Re: [Solved]Help me with my network connection.

How did you install Arch?

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kd6-37

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Re: [Solved]Help me with my network connection.

How can I see that?

kd6-37

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Re: [Solved]Help me with my network connection.

How did you install Arch?

Through a Live USB. I then followed the Install instructions on the Arch Linux Wiki, all through the command line. At that point in time, my Network connection functioned. It even did right after the install. But after a reboot or some strange mishap from me, it just stopped working!

kd6-37

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Re: [Solved]Help me with my network connection.

What networking services are you running / how are you trying to establish a connection?

How would I go about checking that?

2ManyDogs

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Re: [Solved]Help me with my network connection.

kd6-37, please do not post several times in a row if no one has responded. Instead, edit your post to include more information.

I also think you used "Report" instead of "Post reply" -- reports are used to notify the staff when action needs to be taken in a thread.

Trilby

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Re: [Solved]Help me with my network connection.

You shouldn't need to check, you would know.  If you installed arch, you'd not even be able to ping IP addresses without starting some networking service.

But the following may help:

find /etc/systemd/system ! -type d

Last edited by Trilby (2020-08-08 13:17:36)

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WorMzy

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Re: [Solved]Help me with my network connection.

Well, what steps did you perform when you got to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … figuration

Last edited by WorMzy (2020-08-08 12:39:50)

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kd6-37

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Re: [Solved]Help me with my network connection.

You shouldn't need to check, you would know.  If you installed arch, you'd not even be able to ping IP addresses without starting some networking service.

But the following may help:

find /etc/systemd/system ! -type d

This outputs

/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/remote-fs.target
/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty1.service

Well, what steps did you perform when you got to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/In … figuration

Oops, I must have brushed over that. Will follow these instructions. Thanks ("^-^)

kd6-37, please do not post several times in a row if no one has responded. Instead, edit your post to include more information.

I also think you used "Report" instead of "Post reply" -- reports are used to notify the staff when action needs to be taken in a thread.

This is true. Sorry, my first time posting on actual forum. I misread report and reply! :U

Trilby

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Re: [Solved]Help me with my network connection.

You have no networking services enabled - so yes, just follow the section you missed.

Though it is odd that you can ping IP addresses.  You must have run some networking process manually in the current boot to be able to do so.

EDIT: Either early posts were edited or I desperately need coffee.  I could have sworn you posted that you were able to successfully ping IP addresses.  Without that, everything makes much more sense: you simply need to run some networking service.

Last edited by Trilby (2020-08-08 13:17:07)

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