No internet after fresh installed ArchLinux [SOLVED]

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Hello folks o/

Today i made a fresh install on Arch using VM. Everything went smooth with the installation process, even with some slight problems with the partitions i ended up figuring it out. After the reboot i logged in and wanted to

pacman -S xorg xorg-xinit

And here’s what i got

Failed retrieving file ‘x’ could not resolve host ‘x’

Decided to run a quick ping and turned out i had no internet connection at all.

Tried to reset the network manager service and once again the service wasn’t found. Any help will be appreciated.

Kind Regards

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Can you give us the output of ifconfig, ip, nslookup google.com, cat /etc/resolv.conf ?

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Hey, yes sure.
ifconfig - returns 2 interfaces, lo and enp0s3.

lo: <LOOPBACK, UP, LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
enp0s3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether

As for the nslookup, the command wasn’t found, i feel like net-tools package doesn’t even exist, and that being said i cannot install it.

Resolv.conf looks like empty file just 2 lines
Resolver configuration file.
See resolv.conf(5) for details.

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Yeah, arch doesn’t automatically start scanning for wireless networks like some other nix distributions do. If you don’t have a GUI (usually arch doesn’t have one by default), you’ll have to use wpa_supplicant. Here’s the guide I’ve always used: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/WPA_supplicant. You pretty much just fill in the details of your wireless network in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf.

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Is the ethernet cable connected?

6

Hey, yes it is. I think the problem is that the host file as well as resolv one is just empty

8

I will try later on, thank you for pointing it out. I also agree it could be the fact that resolv.conf is actually empty, like i don’t have any nameservers set.

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Quick update, tried what Silence adviced but no results so far. Damn I’m probably missing something but can’t understand what

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Maybe you didn’t enable service dhcpcd?

If you did followed arch linux’s installation guide, after you did everything, there is no command for this:
systemctl enable dhcpcd

This should fix your problem.

Repositories:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpskN_jKyhc ( 32:55 is where is that command )
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide

I hope this helps. Also you should do everything that is said in that youtube video. It is very helpful one.

Best regards.

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Hello man, I’ve already tried that, the thing is that as i mentioned dhcpcd doesn’t even exist along with other services. I forgot to say that I’ve just fixed the issue with the following procedure.

  1. nano /etc/systemd/network/enp0s3.network
  2. [Match]name=en*[Network]DHCP=yes
  3. Saved the file
  4. systemctl restart systemd-networkd
  5. systemctl enable systemd-networkd
  6. Did a quick reboot and issue was solved.
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