I can't connect to the internet after installing arch

Question

I installed arch linux and while doing it everything was great and awesome. I could connect to the internet and download whatever package I wanted. But after installing and rebooting I didn't have any package e.g. wifi-menu, dhcpcd, iw and netctl, so I can't connect to the internet.

Solution 1

Wifi-menu, dhcpcd, netctl etc. are preinstalled on the Arch-Live-CD. In order to have them after booting into your system, you have to install them first.

What you should do:

Boot into your Live-CD and arch-chroot into your system. From there you can install wifi-menu, dhcpcd, netctl and dialog. Then reboot into your system and you should be able to connect to a wifi-network.

Solution 2

I solved the problem. I am new to linux so forgive wrong terminology. I went into the usb from bios again and I could connect to the internet through there. I mounted the partition with linux at mount and arch-chroot into mount. There I could download every package I wanted because I was connected to the internet.

Comments

[Simran Sharma]

How do you arch-chroot into your system because when I typed arch-chroot /mnt, it says "mount: /mnt/proc: mount point does not exist"

[Simran Sharma]

How do you arch-chroot into your system because when I typed arch-chroot /mnt, it says "mount: /mnt/proc: mount point does not exist"

[Lubos Zapotocny]

@SimranSharma mount point do not persist between reboots (by default). So when you restart your pc and boot live-usb, you need to mount the "linux" partition(s) again mount /dev/... /mnt

[Christiano Kiss]

You will get that message if you haven't mounted the root volume yet. So, before calling arch-chroot /mnt, run mount /dev/root_partition /mnt first. P.S.: root_partition would be the partition you've configured as the root. E.g.: sda1.

[jcollum]

how do you "install wifi-menu, dhcpcd, netctl and dialog" with no internet connection?

[David Kariuki]

wifi-menu is no longer available. Use iwd