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nikolaus

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Registered: 2023-11-22

Posts: 8

Feedback on Networks

Hello, I'm Nikolaus

I just started with Arch and find it promising, but I'm not happy w/ the outcome of installation.
While everything went well w/ help from the installation guide, the user is left alone with the problem of networks installation. I consulted the manuals for hours but can't get it online. I don't find the installation guide very helpful in this respect. As I see the Arch installation system is doing fine to connect to the Internet (wired) out of the box so I wonder why you don't give an initial example on how to make such a setting happen.

Greetings

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,233

Re: Feedback on Networks

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Instal … figuration links to further options for setting up a network, pick and choose one. If you don't want/can't install anything in addition systemd-networkd is available, follow it's article.

nikolaus

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Registered: 2023-11-22

Posts: 8

Re: Feedback on Networks

Ok, gotten it working. Main problem was configuring and restarting.
Not sure about this 'source' program, onto what kind of files does it reach? Is there a man page about it?

Second point, it's not easy to understand for a newbie where to place the systemd command to make them run on startup. I tried ~/.bashrc but so far w/o success. Should it work there?

Thanks for the aid!

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,233

Re: Feedback on Networks

No bashrc is the wrong place, you can enable services so they'll remain started, as you'd have guessed there's a wiki article going into the details. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System … mctl_usage

If by "source" you mean the source command in shell scripts that's a built in that will load further instructions from different scripts, not sure what you ended up following since most of that should not be quite relevant when configuring systemd-networkd for example.

Generally speaking Arch is not intended for beginners and you're expected to make an effort to setting up and trying to understand your system - and what you want out of it. To that end you're given many options, but very little in terms of "defaults" as your own decisions and preferences should govern how you want to set things up.

You can do it if you're new but you will have to do a lot of reading and research to make the pieces fit together properly.

Last edited by V1del (2023-11-24 12:35:09)