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I installed Mageia 2 64 bit from the dual arch. CD about 2 hours ago, and booted back into Windows to check up on things. When I booted back into Mageia I tried installing firefox, and found that it was not connected to the Ethernet. I opened up the connection screen, and told it to connect. It failed to connect, and said that PID 2672 was already using it. There is no process monitor that came installed, so I could not investigate the problem, and I do not know many commands in the terminal. How do I fix this?

ps -ef|grep 2672


That will list what process and you could use kill 2672.

Then open up mcc and network and walk through the settings again.

Also read though my post help us to help you, whole lot of commands there.

Regards peter

Ahhh, maybe you just misunderstood, it was probably the software management which told you that some process is already using/has locked urpmi database, as normally those get updated a short time after booting. This has nothing to do with network connection. Just try to ping anything, like

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ping http://www.google.com

in a terminal and you see whether network connection works or not.
And yes, dualarch CD is more meant for a minimal-install type, so it doesn't bring a complete software selection. You may want to look at https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_2_Err ... es_nothing that way you'll get a network/connection monitor.