no network connection in Recovery Mode

[Pramod Dematagoda]

There is no network connection when I boot into Ubuntu 8.04 Recovery Mode, I use an ADSL connection which is used by my PC through a network adapter which did not require any configuration on the normal mode of Ubuntu 8.04 and works perfectly with the Recovery Modes of Ubuntu 7.10 and Ubuntu 7.04.

I tried switching the runlevel to 3, while it did fix the internet problem it caused Recovery Mode to lose root permissions and also started the GUI.

When I compared the runlevels between the Recovery Modes in Ubuntu 7.10 and Ubuntu 8.04 they were the same:-

"N S"

So the issue must be with the modules that are being loaded.

I also tried /etc/init.d/networking start, but it gave me errors that eth0 the network interface cannot be recognised.

[jhansonxi (jhansonxi)]

I'm encountering this in Hardy. dhclient is not started in recovery mode and friendly-recovery does not have an option to start it.

[Ivan Lautaro Lemos (ivancete)]

Hey! same for me, i need internet to repare broken packages with the dpkg option, but with no internet it cant do it...
because cant resolve the host ubuntu.com

Really, it doesnt recognize the interface eth0 in recovery mode, and in it is plugged the adsl router. I think this a bug...
Any suggestion or possible solution to this inconvenient

[jhansonxi (jhansonxi)]

This has been fixed in Ubuntu 9.04 beta (Jaunty Jackalope) with the addition of the netroot menu item in friendly recovery.