Re: [arch-general] netcfg pppoe 'error sending pppoe packet: Network is down'

2011-12-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 08.12.2011 16:05, schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > Thank you Thomas :) > > so the easiest way for me seems to install a DE with a GUI network manager. > IIUC 'pacman -U' would be the way to install downloaded packages. You could first try this: ip link set eth0 up netcfg pppoe This should work. As J

Re: [arch-general] netcfg pppoe 'error sending pppoe packet: Network is down'

2011-12-08 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 12/8/11, Thomas Bächler wrote: > Am 08.12.2011 09:19, schrieb Ralf Mardorf: >> Hi :) >> >> ... > > The problem here is that the 'eth0' interface is not up when pppd is > launched. This would be easily solved by running > ip link set eth0 up > before launching pppd, but netcfg doesn't know that

Re: [arch-general] netcfg pppoe 'error sending pppoe packet: Network is down'

2011-12-08 Thread Cédric Girard
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > so the easiest way for me seems to install a DE with a GUI network manager. I'm not sure network-manager is the way to go. When enabled it makes just the configuration a nightmare because standard configuration file are either ignored or repl

Re: [arch-general] netcfg pppoe 'error sending pppoe packet: Network is down'

2011-12-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
-Original Message- From: arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org on behalf of Thomas Bächler Sent: Thu 12/8/2011 13:14 Am 08.12.2011 09:19, schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > Hi :) > > if I run (as root, there anyway still is no user) 'netcfg pppoe' I get 'error > sending/receiving pppoe packet: Networ

Re: [arch-general] netcfg pppoe 'error sending pppoe packet: Network is down'

2011-12-08 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 08.12.2011 09:19, schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > Hi :) > > if I run (as root, there anyway still is no user) 'netcfg pppoe' I get 'error > sending/receiving pppoe packet: Network is down'. > I never set up a wired pppoe connection manually before. > > Cheers! > > Ralf > > PS: I've seen that there

Re: [arch-general] netcfg pppoe 'error sending pppoe packet: Network is down'

2011-12-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Pardon, the M$ web-thingy is a PITA, next time it claims that something went wrong, I'll first check http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2011-December/date.html.

Re: [arch-general] netcfg pppoe 'error sending pppoe packet: Network is down'

2011-12-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
-Original Message- From: arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org on behalf of Karol Babioch Sent: Thu 12/8/2011 10:53 Hi, Am 08.12.2011 09:19, schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > if I run (as root, there anyway still is no user) 'netcfg pppoe' I get 'error > sending/receiving pppoe packet: Network is do

Re: [arch-general] netcfg pppoe 'error sending pppoe packet: Network is down'

2011-12-08 Thread Ralf Mardorf
-Original Message- From: arch-general-boun...@archlinux.org on behalf of Karol Babioch Sent: Thu 12/8/2011 10:53 Hi, Am 08.12.2011 09:19, schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > if I run (as root, there anyway still is no user) 'netcfg pppoe' I get 'error > sending/receiving pppoe packet: Network is do

Re: [arch-general] netcfg pppoe 'error sending pppoe packet: Network is down'

2011-12-08 Thread Karol Babioch
Hi, Am 08.12.2011 09:19, schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > if I run (as root, there anyway still is no user) 'netcfg pppoe' I get 'error > sending/receiving pppoe packet: Network is down' Just to make sure that netcfg is really what you want. Do you plan to install a (rich) desktop environment later on? A