internet connection in debian 6's recovery mode

Question

I've broken my window manager on my Debian 6 machine, and so I am stuck to recovery mode for now. That is, I got a plain root shell. Now here's my problem: how can I get a internet connection, so I can pull new sources and compile my window manager?

ifconfig eth0 up
/etc/init.d/network-manager restart

does not work. eth0 is up, but I cannot access the internet. What's wrong?

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 18 '11 at 19:52

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Try dhclient eth0 if it's a direct connection to your ISP or there's a DHCP server in your network.

Can you ping hosts in your network, if any? Please post the output of ifconfig eth0 and route -n.

answered Jun 18 '11 at 19:52

Eduardo Ivanec

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ip addr sh and ip ro sh - also come to play as ifconfig and route should be considered deprecated (but yes, they still work). – cstamas Jun 18 '11 at 21:02
@cstamas: true, but old habits die hard! `netstat -nr` can also replace `route`. – Eduardo Ivanec Jun 18 '11 at 21:06
nice, did not know the latter. – cstamas Jun 18 '11 at 21:10

internet connection in debian 6's recovery mode

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