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Topic: [Solved] Networking at recovery console

I've been in and out of the recovery console for the last two days, changing video drivers, etc. At one point I had Internet (networking) access from the recovery console over eth0 (wired ethernet on desktop machine). Today I don't have any access. firmware-realtek is (still) installed and I did a dpkg-reconfigure on it. I tried to bring up networking or network-manager or ifup eth0 -- nothing worked. ifconfig did not show my local LAN address -- only localhost 127.0.0.1. Ideas?

Last edited by SabreWolfy (2012-02-09 13:43:11)

• #! Waldorf • Support #! •
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Re: [Solved] Networking at recovery console

service networking restart
dhclient eth0
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Re: [Solved] Networking at recovery console

^ Thanks smile This worked. I wonder why I did not need to do it before. Maybe I was at a console I got to by typing "exit" at the SLiM login...

Edit: Yes, if I drop to a console via "exit" at SLiM I obviously still have connectivity.

Last edited by SabreWolfy (2012-02-09 13:43:00)

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Re: [Solved] Networking at recovery console

*whisper* remember to mark your thread 'solved'! big_smile

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Re: [Solved] Networking at recovery console

rhowaldt wrote:

*whisper* remember to mark your thread 'solved'! big_smile

Hahaha smile Did it while you were posting that it seems smile

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Re: [Solved] Networking at recovery console

SabreWolfy wrote:

Edit: Yes, if I drop to a console via "exit" at SLiM I obviously still have connectivity.

There's a difference. When you drop to a console via exit, you're still in multi-user mode with networking (runlevel 2), you just don't have X. Regular recovery mode is single-user mode, no networking, no daemons.

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Re: [Solved] Networking at recovery console

^ Thanks for the explanation smile

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