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#1 2010-02-17 23:44:57

florut
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UL30: internet for installation?

Hi,
Trying to install Arch on my brand-new UL30VT, and breaking my teeth on it: impossible to set up an internet connection.
My ethernet cable is plugged in (and I tested it successfully with arch-based live-cd (chakra)).
The automatic network setup won't work.

$ifconfig 
lo Link encap:Local LOopback
inet addr:127.0....
[...]

wlan0      Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX....
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST 
[...]

so I tried:

# dhcpcd wlan0
dhcpcd: version 5.... starting
dhcpcd: wlan0:waiting for carrier
dhcpcd: timed out

Did someone made it on a UL30 machine ? (or UL80, seems to be same hardware except for the video cards and screen size)


Using Chakra [core, community, extra, kdemod-core, kdemod-extragear, kdemod-playground, archlinuxfr]
ASUS UL30VT - Core2Duo SU7300 (x64) @1,3Ghz + GM45 Express (hybrid, GeForce G210M disabled)

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#2 2010-02-18 00:14:40

tomk
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Re: UL30: internet for installation?

OK.. "ethernet cable is plugged in" means a eth0 interface, not a wlan0 interface. wlan is wifi. What does ifconfig -a show you? If you can see eth0 there, and it's DOWN, do ifconfig eth0 up, and dhcpcd eth0.

Read this, and if necessary, the network sections of this.

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#3 2010-02-19 07:43:52

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Re: UL30: internet for installation?

My Asus UL30A had no issues using a WPA-encrypted wireless network for install (wpa_supplicant & dhcpcd are what I used to set it up).  As for ethernet, it is indeed eth0 (as noted above).  Shouldn't have any issues with that either.  Not really adding anything new to the thread, but I just wanted to confirm that it does work (at least, I believe the hardware is similar on the UL30A).


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#4 2010-02-19 14:52:08

florut
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Re: UL30: internet for installation?

My Asus UL30A had no issues using a WPA-encrypted wireless network for install (wpa_supplicant & dhcpcd are what I used to set it up).  As for ethernet, it is indeed eth0 (as noted above).  Shouldn't have any issues with that either.  Not really adding anything new to the thread, but I just wanted to confirm that it does work (at least, I believe the hardware is similar on the UL30A).

OK thanks for the report!:) If you get some time to try setup with ethernet connection, it would be interesting...

OK.. "ethernet cable is plugged in" means a eth0 interface, not a wlan0 interface. wlan is wifi.

Yes of course. But not seeing anything else, I expected an error (somehow)

What does ifconfig -a show you?

same as ifconfig! tongue
Here is the full output:

$ ifconfig -a 
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:25:D3:F4:1E:35  
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-25-D3-F4-1E-35-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          [NO FLAGS]  MTU:0  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wmaster0???

Read this, and if necessary, the network sections of this.

Of course I did... But this is meant to configure an existing arch installation... Does modifying rc.conf should change anything without restarting the kernel?
I tried anyway, it did not change anything.


Using Chakra [core, community, extra, kdemod-core, kdemod-extragear, kdemod-playground, archlinuxfr]
ASUS UL30VT - Core2Duo SU7300 (x64) @1,3Ghz + GM45 Express (hybrid, GeForce G210M disabled)

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#5 2010-02-19 15:28:02

tomk
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Re: UL30: internet for installation?

If you don't have an eth0 interface, your ethernet driver is not loaded for some reason - it should load automatically. lspci will help you identify the network card and driver - once you have that, try loading it manually.

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#6 2010-02-22 01:14:05

borrell
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Re: UL30: internet for installation?

I had real trouble getting the ethernet working on my UL30VT earlier this week.

To get around it, I installed using the core image, connected to my wireless network, then installed the atl1e package from the AUR. That got the onboard networking going wink

Last edited by borrell (2010-02-22 01:15:23)

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#7 2010-04-07 02:42:02

pariah2707
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Re: UL30: internet for installation?

hi, I bought a ul30vt too a few days ago.

Would you mind sharing your experience to get the wireless network connected? I got a lot of trouble trying to make its iwlwifi-1000 firmware work.
I'd also like to know if eth0 works automatically once updated to the newest kernel.

Thanks a lot.

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#8 2010-05-14 14:13:02

torpe23
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From: Paris, France
Registered: 2009-06-11
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Re: UL30: internet for installation?

I'm sorry, I won't be able to be accurate. From what I remember when I installed Arch on my UL30vt, I couldn't make eth0 working : the kernel provided in 2009.08 doesn't contain the proper driver (or it is broken). Don't worry though, current kernels have not trouble with ethernet chipset!
On the other hand, the wifi chip is working for the installation. You just have to configure it properly with wpa_supplicant in command line (which is quite a pain but it works!)

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