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c0dege3k

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Registered: 2011-05-10

Posts: 27

Network config problems

To start, I'm running this on an iBook G3, so if anyone thinks this is in the wrong place, feel free to move it.

Now I have a weird setup- my Droid is tethered to my main laptop, which then has an ethernet cord running to the iBook, so that I get internet through 3G.

Whenever I try to run the install and configure the network, it comes up with "Failed to run dhcpcd." There have been 2 times where it didn't. However, I did nothing different those times, and installing the packages in the next step gave me no output.

Is this a problem from my setup, or something else?

ANY help is hugely appreciated- I'd really like to resurrect this iBook.

brando56894

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 681

Re: Network config problems

I'd suggest using a static IP for the iBook. You may want to upload the network sections of your rc.conf for both laptops so we can take a look.

c0dege3k

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Registered: 2011-05-10

Posts: 27

Re: Network config problems

The ibook's rc.conf:

#
#etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
. /etc/archiso/functions

LOCALE_DEFAULT="en_US.UTF-8"
CLOCK_DEFAULT-"localtime"
TIMEZONE_DEFAULT=""
KEYMAP_DEFAULT="us"

LOCALE="$(cmdline_param locale ${LOCALE_DEFAULT})"
HARDWARECLOCK="$cmdline_param clock ${CLOCK_DEFAULT})"
TIMEZONE="$(cmdline_param timezone ${TIMEZONE_DEFAULT})"
KEYMAP="$(cmdline_param keymap ${KEYMAP_DEFAULT})"
CONSOLEFONT="$(cmdline_param consolefont)"
CONSOLEMAP="$(cmdline_param consolefont)"
USECOLOR="yes"

MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"

HOSTNAME="archiso"

#TODO add more auto-daemons here, especially the live-cd specific stuff
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network)
#TODO: auto-network find-disks find-user-home

and my main laptop is running Ubuntu, so it doesn't have an rc.conf. This time, it configured the network fine, but still no output in /dev/tty5