Help Needed With My Mkiv And Arch Linux

[Phyrne]

Greetings! :)

I can't seem to get my MkIV working with my MacBook Air running Arch Linux.

Here's the situation: I have my Pineapple connected via ethernet (to eth0) from the PoE port, I wait a while after the WPS button stops flashing before trying anything.

Here's the output of 'ip addr' before I run the script:

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 10:40:f3:89:c2:e2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.0.110/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global wlan0
    inet6 fe80::1240:f3ff:fe89:c2e2/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 1000
    link/ether b8:8d:12:56:b0:0b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

I run the wp4 script as root with all the default settings as these should suffice for my network:

     _ .           ___          \||/   Internet: 192.168.0.1 - wlan0
   (  _ )_  <-->  [___]  <-->  ,<><>,  Computer: 172.16.42.42
 (_  _(_ ,)       \___\        '<><>' Pineapple: 172.16.42.0/24 - eth0

Browse to http://172.16.42.1/pineapple  --  Happy Hacking!

Attempting to access the web gui at 172.16.42.1 shows that it is unreachable, so, here's ip addr after the script:

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 10:40:f3:89:c2:e2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.0.110/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global wlan0
    inet6 fe80::1240:f3ff:fe89:c2e2/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 1000
    link/ether b8:8d:12:56:b0:0b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 172.16.42.42/24 brd 172.16.42.255 scope global eth0

And just in case, here's uname -a's output:

Linux MacBook 3.4.4-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Jun 24 18:59:47 CEST 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Does anybody have any idea as to what I'm doing wrong?

Any help is greatly appreciated with this! Thanks in advance :)

[Molotof]

Your eth0 state is down, check your cable as it sounds like no physical connection.

[Darren Kitchen]

Odd, should work. What about manually configuring the network. Try "sudo ifconfig eth0 172.16.42.42 netmask 255.255.255.0 up; ping 172.16.42.1"

Also you may want to disable any network managers that might be messing with your connection. The network-manager service typically found in Gnome can sometimes get in the way. Not sure about arch but on ubuntu it's "stop network-manager".

Lastly, I did recently update the wp4.sh script to include some pretty ascii art and clean up the wizard a bit. I don't recall messing with the heavy lifting code but just in case here's a link to the old version. Let me know if this solves your problem as I haven't experienced trouble with the new one.

http://www.wifipineapple.com/wp4-1.0.sh