First off, yesterday was my first day with GNU/linux. I never touched the insides of it before this, so my knowledge is minimal.
So when installing Arch Linux, everything goes fine until I try and ping a server to see if my network works. The ping doesn't work, When I use the ip addr command it shows that I have the localhost, eth0 and eth1. Both eth0 and eth1 say they are down.
After a lot of frustration and trying to research the problem. I caved in and went with a more straight forward install with mint.
In mint, I checked to see what the network says
Quote:
Wired Network (Intel 82579V Gigabit)
Auto eth2
Wired Network (Realtek RTL8111/81685 PCI-Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller)
(disconnected)
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what got my curiosity is that mint was able to connect to my network, but not on eth0 or eth1, but eth2 which wasn't in the ip addr listing.
So I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me out with solving this? I followed their beginner wiki multiple times and still no luck.
Thanks a lot!
edit, after some looking. Mint uses "network manager" would this help arch finding my network a little better?
