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poymode

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Registered: 2008-12-07

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ArchLinux Internet Connection in VMWare Problem

Hello. I am newbie and I am currently using ArchLinux on VMware 6.

Unfortunately, my Arch doesnt have any internet connection.

Can you help me setup my internet connection?

my HOST system is vista and running arch on vmware.

I tried to experiment the bridging, NAT's etc...sharing.....but none work

please help

When I try to

pacman -Syu

it fails in fetching such packages.

Last edited by poymode (2008-12-07 13:12:26)

poymode

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Registered: 2008-12-07

Posts: 3

Re: ArchLinux Internet Connection in VMWare Problem

bump

archlinuxsagi

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Registered: 2008-09-12

Posts: 259

Re: ArchLinux Internet Connection in VMWare Problem

You should use NAT and have to manually bring up eth0. eth0 should be set to be using DHCP.

Oromis

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Registered: 2008-09-06

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Re: ArchLinux Internet Connection in VMWare Problem

Hi, I have the same problem with my network not working after installing Arch in both VMware and Virtualbox.
My host is Ubuntu 64bit and network settings are setup with static IP's.
Arch installs quite easily, so no problems with that; right now I just want to get the network configured properly.
I have tried dhcp in /etc/rc.conf as well as static IP's, but to no avail. I am probably forgetting something simple.
I have booted Mint6 in both VM's and the network works just fine with it.

EDIT: ifconfig shows that eth0 is alive; ping delivers nothing however.

My preference would be to get it working on Virtualbox as VMware is slowly going from my life.

I am really keen to get to know Arch better and doing it in a VM is easier while learning.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciate.

Thanks,
Oromis.

Last edited by Oromis (2009-01-11 07:31:13)

archlinuxsagi

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Registered: 2008-09-12

Posts: 259

Re: ArchLinux Internet Connection in VMWare Problem

After ifconfig eth0, you should
dhclient eth0 or dhcpcd eth0