VMWare Archlinux no network

IC3 · 11 Jul 2014 at 22:49

I'm having some problems with getting network to work, I've installed the latest archlinux (32-bit) on vmware (kernel 2.6x).

# ping -c 3 8.8.8.8
connect: Network is unreachable

memyselfandi · 12 Jul 2014 at 07:07

You have loaded a kernel module but that does not mean that the card is actually configured with an ip address etc.

What does the following say?
ip addr

If that doesn't show an ipaddress on the interface then you will probably need to restart networking after making sure that there is a correctly configured ifcfg-ethX file for the interface.

IC3 · 12 Jul 2014 at 12:31

memyselfandi said:
What does the following say?
ip addr

memyselfandi · 12 Jul 2014 at 13:56

So your network card is ens33 but is not configured with any form of ip address, either statically or via DHCP, hence you can't talk to anything. If there was one then you would have a inet line for it in the same way as for the loopback interface (and probably a inet6 ipv6 one as well).

As you say you are using the latest Arch linux I would suggest looking at the following link assuming you want to get a DHCP address from your router.

If you want to configure a static address then I would suggest having a read through the following link.

Swarfega · 14 Jul 2014 at 11:57

systemctl start dhcpcd@ens33

If your happy that works and DHCP is the route you want to use then make it do this upon every system startup

systemctl enable dhcpcd@ens33

IC3 · 18 Jul 2014 at 15:01

I had to format my PC, as my Windows 8.1 started to be very unstable. Back to windows 7 and now I'll install ubuntu 12.04 gnome classic or Xubuntu next to it.

P.s
I'll most likely get back to Arch on Virtual machine, but first I need to sort out my main systems. Anyway thanks for help everyone!