[SOLVED] Need help installing proxmox

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Defiance_21

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Honestly kind of embarrassing as I am totally new to Linux and all kinds of networking so you may have to bear a bit with me here but I'm trying to setup Proxmox on a new PC for the first time and I seem to be having trouble connecting to the GUI on my web browser.

When trying to connect to the server from my phone it returns an ERR_ADDRESS_UNREACHABLE
While trying to connect via my other desktop I get a ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT

Pinging the serve yields me a Destination Host Unreachable.

The DNS address is configured to 1.1.1.1 (tried 8.8.8.8 just in case but same issue)

My interfaces file reads as follows

Code: 
auto lo
iface lol inet loopback

iface enp30s0 inet manual

Auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
        address 192.168.1.69/24
        gateway 192.168.1.1
        bridge-ports enp30s0
        bridge-stp off
        bridge-fd 0

iface wlx3c3786155f55 inet manual

I am using a usb wifi adapter (I'm thinking that's the issue at this point) if I absolutely need to buy a NIC I will. I am unable to use a direct Ethernet connection to my router in my current situation unfortunately.
 
bbgeek17 said:
Do you have other devices on your home network?
If you do, what are their IP addresses?
What does "ip a" show on PVE?

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Yes I live in a house with 3 other people and have a ton of devices connected. I have a 2.4ghz wifi and a 5ghz one

Here's the list of the devices connected on the 2.4ghz
192.168.1.162
192.168.1.86
192.168.1.242
192.168.1.218
192.168.1.152
192.168.1.62
192.168.1.84
192.168.1.52


My main desktop is the only one connected to the 5ghz at the moment
192.168.1.191

These two are connected via coax cable
192.168.1.103
192.168.1.105

Here's the output of ip a
Code: 
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
        inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
           valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
        inet6 ::1/128 scope host
           valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp30s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master vmbr0 state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 88:d7:f6:c9:3f:f6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlx3c3786155f55: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 3c:37:86:15:5f:55 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: vmbr0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 88:d7:f6:c9:3f:f6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.1.69/24 scope global vmbr0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
root@pve1:~# [ 1244.316114] usb 1-3: USB disconnect, device number 3
[ 1244.316130] usb 1-3.2: USB disconnect, device number 5
 
The bridge-ports for vmbr0 (with the address and gateway on it) is: enp30s0.
enp30s0 is the wired, but not connected, LAN.
wlx3c3786155f55 is the WLAN.

So you need to exchange the bridge-ports for vmbr0 and also need to set up the WLAN connection: [1]

I have no experience with WLAN on Proxmox/PVE; so unfortunately I can not help further.

[1] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/WLAN
 
Neobin said:
The bridge-ports for vmbr0 (with the address and gateway on it) is: enp30s0.
enp30s0 is the wired, but not connected, LAN.
wlx3c3786155f55 is the WLAN.

So you need to exchange the bridge-ports for vmbr0 and also need to set up the WLAN connection: [1]

I have no experience with WLAN on Proxmox/PVE; so unfortunately I can not help further.

[1] https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/WLAN
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Yeah from what I've can tell WLAN is highly not recommended at all, just getting a wifi extender with an Ethernet port wouldn't be a workaround right? It would have to be a direct connection to the router?
 
Defiance_21 said:
Yeah from what I've can tell WLAN is highly not recommended at all, just getting a wifi extender with an Ethernet port wouldn't be a workaround right? It would have to be a direct connection to the router?
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Correct.

As I said, I have no experience with it. So I can not tell you, how good or not it possibly might work in a, for example, small homelab with low traffic.
At least, it seems to need some fiddling to get it going in the first place. If you are up to that, try it out and see if it suits you. But, yeah...
 
Ended up just drilling a hole through my wall and making the connection wired and installed proxmox successfully that way, thank you to everyone for your help.
 
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