[birdie101]

Hi everyone,

I've started a little side project and was installing Arch on some new gear. I'm having issues getting Arch to get the network going with either a static ip or DHCP. The motherboard (Gigabyte GA-A55M-S2H) has a Realtek RTL9222/8168B chip (rev 06) in it for the ethernet port.

What happens is that a DHCPCD command times out, and if I try to manually configure a static ip I get no connectivity. I've even tried to assign an IP to the MAC in the router with no success.

ip addr has the following output:

1:  lo:  <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN

link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00: brd 00:00:00:00:00:00

inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo

inet6 ::1/128 scope lost

valid_lft preferred)lft forever

2: eth0:  <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP>  mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_state UP qlen 1000

link/ether 50:e5:49:57:b8:50 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

inet6 fe80::52e5::49ff:fe57:b850/64 scope link

valid_lft preferred)lft forever

Not entirely sure what to do to get network connectivity. I've used the i686 netinstaller image, the i686 core image and the x64 netinstaller image to see if there was any difference.

The only plus to the i686 core image is that I can setup the hard-drives and install the base package but without network connectivity, I can't do too much more.

Cheers,
Luke

[arkay]

Luke,

I'm about to be away on holidays so I might not be able to get all the way through with this but you need to make sure the ethernet card is working at all first, before trying to assign things to it

ifconfig -a

Will show you if you have an eth0 and what IP is assigned to it.

Other commands you might find useful are:

dmesg

ethtool

modprobe

rmmod

lsmod

There should also be some info on how to manually configure a network card on the Arch wiki. Though it's so rare I've never really done it. Usually even new hardware works well enough to complete an install. You might just have to load a kernel module to get the card working before doing the install. You can switch to an alternate screen in the installer to see if the card is configured/there etc. You can even manually configure it before running the /arch/setup stuff.

I think the beginners guide might also have a section on what to do if the network doesn't auto configure in the installer. Be worth having a look there too.

Cheers,

Arkay.

[birdie101]

arkay, on 17 January 2012 - 07:26 PM, said:

Luke,

I'm about to be away on holidays so I might not be able to get all the way through with this but you need to make sure the ethernet card is working at all first, before trying to assign things to it

Who approved those holidays???? Good for you. Your boys must be old enough to really be able to enjoy a family holiday now. Would you believe my young bloke isn't far off turning two?

Anyway, I pulled a 10/100 network card out of some old gear I had here which was detected straight off the bat to complete the install. I figured I could then google my heart away off the working machine and get the onboard one to work. I don't keep up with the announcements re arch, so using "ip addr" took me a while to find...

I'll persevere and try and find a solution because I would like to remove the NIC as it is in the slot beside the fanless GPU and I'd prefer to have as much free airflow as possible.

All good.

Enjoy your holiday.

Cheers,
Luke