Hello everyone,

I am trying to install latest version of Arch Linux. Basic installation goes fine and I am able to download all the packets. However when I try to start basic installation network connection doesn't exist. I get "Temporary failure in name resolution" when I try to ping google.com. When I try to ping random address I get "Network is unreachable". I have Kubuntu under same router and I tried to use Kubuntu's settings for resolv.conf but that didn't help. What should I do?

Yours

Kimmo

Did you install a network manager when you were installing? What did you install? How did you configure your network. Did you bring the ethernet interface up? What is the output of
Did you follow the wiki?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php..._configuration

Give some more info. What you have done and where it failed.

Hi,

Thank you for the reply. I went through instructions given in Arch Wiki Installation (the same page you mentioned) again and noticed that I hadn’t installed network manager. So I did and now I can reach network. When I was talking about ”basic install” I meant install of pacstrap in Wiki. Thanks to your idea about network manager I have moved ahead quite bit. Thank you.

Kimmo

Yes, arch is doing things the arch way. Arch does not even install a kernel unless you tell it to. (I think that most people probably need one)

Before you leave chroot, install a kernel, a network manager, a cli text editor unless you like vi, and a boot loader.

Then when you boot the installation you are set to go from there.

You don't have to have a network manager on a wired interface. You can bring the interface up manually, give it an address and a route, in case you missed installing a network manager while in chroot.