Networking on Arch

[sosudo]

When I "boot" into Arch through the Bedrock Bootloader, everything seems to work fine. I start gnome and everything's great. Gnome says it's connected to the internet, so I open Firefox and type in a random link. Firefox says it's not connected to the internet. This happens in Chrome, Web, and Chromium as well. Plus, when I type in Sudo pacman -Sy, it gets errors due to a missing internet connection. Is there a way to resolve this?

[paradigm]

• Did you hijack Arch, install it via brl fetch, or install it via another means?
• Which strata provide the various things you're using to check the internet connection (e.g. Gnome, Firefox, Chromium, etc)?
• Does ping -c1 8.8.4.4 give an error message or some time=<number> ms value?
• Does for s in $(brl list); do strat $s wc -l /etc/resolv.conf; done give error messages or a bunch of <number> /etc/resolv.conf lines?

[sosudo]

I installed it via brl fetch. Ubuntu provides chrome and chromium. Arch provides gnome, Firefox, and Web. Ping responds with a network is unreachable error. The last bit responds with a bunch of resolve.conf lines.

[paradigm]

Given:

• Bedrock does not currently make init configuration stuff work across strata. It doesn't know how to, for example, teach Arch's init how to use Ubuntu's networking init configuration.
• brl fetch provides a minimal instance of a given distro. Just enough to let users bootstrap whatever else they need. It doesn't necessarily grab things like network setup automatically.

I suspect you just don't have your Arch init doing any networking setup. The only counter point here is Gnome indicating it is connected to the internet. I don't know enough about Gnome to understand why this would be the case when ping disagrees.

Try setting up Arch's networking.

• If you need internet access while doing so, you can reboot to another init that has a working network setup. Presumably your hijacked stratum did and is still around.
• Arch's wiki is very good. Maybe start here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_configuration
• Keep local vs global Bedrock stuff in mind. If you need to edit an Arch specific file while doing this, prefix with /bedrock/strata/arch/. Global files should be edited at their normal path.

[sosudo]

I actually figured it out! First I had to activate Network Manager by sudo NetworkManager Then I followed the steps in this link - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-resolve-temporary-failure-in-name-resolution-issue

[paradigm]

Nicely done :)

[SeerLite]

Hey @Imperial-Industries, just wanted to chime in and say that in Arch, there's a specific systemd service file that manages NetworkManager. Running sudo NetworkManager may work, but is not the way it's supposed to be run under Arch as you'd be missing out on journal logs and daemon management.

A quick summary: Use systemctl start NetworkManager to start NetworkManager, and systemctl enable NetworkManager in case you want to have it started on boot.

See this section on how to use systemctl from the ArchWiki for more information.

[sosudo]

Oh ok. Thank you!