How can I get access to the Internet after networkmanager is down? I disabled the networkmanager and uncommented the static IP settings I used to use and reboot, but I'm still unable to get access to the Internet. (Failed to ping 8.8.8.8, which means the problem isn't DNS.)
Here's how this happened:
I used to get access to the Internet on my ArchLinux machine by setting up a static IP address in /etc/rc.conf. This worked fine. Then one day I needed to do something difficult without a networkmanager, so I installed the network-manager-applet via pacman, which worked fine as well, until one day after I ran pacman -Syu and rebooted, many programs, including the network-manager-applet are unable to work, saying the system is missing libpng14.so. My workstation was connected to a wireless connection at that time (the same one before my last pacman -Syu and reboot), and I tried to run pacman -Syu again and the network seemed to still be working. So I didn't take it as a big problem at that time.
But now, after I brought it to work (where I connect to the Internet via a wired network and a static IP), I found myself unable to get access again to the Internet, even after I removed networkmanager from the DAEMONS in rc.conf, and uncommented the static IP settings that used to work. And It's not DNS problems since I'm unable to ping 8.8.8.8 or any other known IPs directly (it says destination host is unreachable).
Here's my rc.conf files, the IP address and gateway stuff couldn't be wrong so hope you don't mind I use something like XX.XX.XX.XX instead:
LOCALE="en-US.UTF-8"
DAEMON-LOCALE="no"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="Asia/Shanghai"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"
MODULES=(wl)
UDEV_TIMEOUT=30
USEDMRAID="no"
USEBTRFS="no"
USELVM="no"
HOSTNAME="lastland"
interface=eth0
address=XX.XX.XX.XX
netmask=255.255.255.0
broadcast=XX.XX.XX.255
gateway=XX.XX.XX.XX
NETWORK_PERSIST="no"
DAEMONS = (syslog-ng network crond dbus kdm alsa)
