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xsky13

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Registered: 2021-04-23

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Can't connect to the internet after installation

I recently installed arch on my system, and after finishing the installation process and rebooting I tried to install some packages, but I get 'Failed retrieving file... Could not resolve hostname' error. I also tried pinging but I got a 'Temporary failure in name resolution' error. I think that this is because the internet. I've already tried to use nmcli, but it didn't work. When I tried dhcpcd it said 'command not found'. Could anybody help me please?

Last edited by xsky13 (2021-04-23 01:26:55)

aoaaceai

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Registered: 2021-04-21

Posts: 8

Re: Can't connect to the internet after installation

Have you installed / enabled any network configuration tools?

xsky13

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Registered: 2021-04-23

Posts: 2

Re: Can't connect to the internet after installation

If you mean something like network manager I do and I have it enabled and started.

synicalx1

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Registered: 2021-04-22

Posts: 4

Re: Can't connect to the internet after installation

First thing to check; is it your network connection that isn't working, or just DNS? See if you can ping your gateway IP or even just 8.8.8.8, that should narrow things down a bit.

EDIT:

Should also suggest; if you can't ping an IP then lets take a look at the result of 'ip link' and make sure your NIC(s) are actually there.

Last edited by synicalx1 (2021-04-23 05:26:06)