#[SOLVED] Network Setup Under VMWare and archinstall.

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coral lake
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Standard litany

I've done a clean install of Arch from the latest ISO in the latest VMWare Workstation and then ran the archinstall script. I'm not able to access the network, thus no pacman or yay. I've looked at a mixture of the arch wiki, search results in this server, and old forum results when trying to troubleshoot this so far.

ip address

ens33 <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000

sudo ip link set ens33 up
ip address

ens33 <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_code1 state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000

sudo systemctl start systemd-networkd.service
sudo systemctl start systemd-resolved.service

[no output; assuming success?]

ping cloudflare.com

ping: cloudflare.com: Temporary failure in name resolution

cat /etc/resolve.conf

nameserver set to 127.0.0.53
options edns0 trust-ad
search .

I am able to ping 127.0.0.53 successfully, so I assumed the issue is DNS.

I surprisingly do not seem to have pico, nano, or vim available with which to edit... So, sudo sed -i 's/127.0.0.53/8.8.8.8/g' /etc/resolve.conf and the edit succeeded but it did not solve the problem.

What am I missing?

(Also, as background, I have other VMs set up, including EndeavourOS and the network is fine in the other distros.)

regal umbra
coral lake
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nmcli isn't available, so I'm assuming it's not?

regal umbra
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yeah it's not

# 
pacman -Qs networkmanager

to verify

coral lake
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Basically no output after typing that.

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So probably verified?

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Vs with pacman -Qs ping I do see output.

regal umbra
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yeah you should install networkmanager

coral lake
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Odd question, but how am I installing networkmanager or other software without a network connection? Is it on the install image, and I need to specify the image as a source for pacman or similar?

regal umbra
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you need to boot back into the iso, mount the partitions, arch-chroot into your root partition and install it there

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that's the easiest way

coral lake
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Is there an outline of how to do that with various packages somewhere on the wiki that I can dig up?

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I'll probably install nano as well if it's on the image, since editing with sed is awkward.

regal umbra
coral lake
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I mean that in case some other issue comes up and I need to adjust some configuration on the system, it will be nice to have nano available in case installing that package doesn't cover everything.

regal umbra
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okay, then just install networkmanager and nano

coral lake
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That's the plan, yes. I'm just trying to figure out whether the wiki talks about the process for arch-chrooting into my partition and installing software. I'll google / search the wiki and see if I can find a walkthrough.

regal umbra
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an alternative way would be to mount the partitions and use pacstrap /mnt networkmanager nano

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but chroot is the preferred way

coral lake
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Okay, did the chroot thing to install nano and networkmanager. nmcli now reports networkmanager is not running, as opposed to just being not found.

regal umbra
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Did you enable it?

coral lake
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Okay, awesome. Looks like
systemctrl start NetworkManager.service and the above commands for networkd and resolved being run is letting me ping cloudflare, so it looks like it's resolved on the current boot.

Thank you!

Going to reboot real quick to see whether the service is being started each time on system boot, and then try to figure out how to make it start every time automatically.

regal umbra
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yes it is

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oh no it isn't

coral lake
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It's not. Just confirmed by reboot.

regal umbra
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use enable instead of start

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enable --now to enable and start

coral lake
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Ahh, that'd do it.

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Awesome, thank you. That helped it persist on reboot!

regal umbra
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fantastic

coral lake
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❤️ clappy

regal umbra
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:3

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... solved

faint plinthBOT
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