Featured Articles
Announcing Pi
Technical Specifications
Raspberry Pi FAQs
Win a Pi
Raspberry Pi Wishlist
Actions
Forum Thread Details
  • Replies 6 replies
  • Subscribers 664 subscribers
  • Views 510 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Related

Raspberry eth0 problem

Former Member

Hello all,

 

New here, allthough not new in the computer technology, but recently discovered this newsgroup.

 

My problem is that I had a working raspberry (for several weeks) and now eth0 has stopped working. I'm almost sure it's not a hardware problem, neither on the RasPi side as not on the router side.

 

What I did was delete some obsolete software packages (at least that was what I thought about them) but since then the RasPi boots fine, all is active as before, just eth0 is not active.

 

Some basic commands like ifdown and ifup do not change anything. My suspicion is that I removed too much software, but I'm not really sure what I deleted, except some games, which should not have that influence.

 

Can somebody point me to a list of absolutely necessary software in order to have a functioning eth0?

 

And can I put missing software on a stick and install it from there again?

 

Thanks in advance for thinking along with me.

 

BR, Schimanski.

  • The easiest/fast way to get your eth0 since we aren't sure what you've deleted is re-flashing your SD card.

     

    F/S

  • in reply to fidelsalinas

    Thanks and certainly helpfull, but.......

     

    I'm willing to follow up your suggestion, but I want to preserve what's on the card right now. So, a complete reinstall is a possibility, whenever non-destructive to the data, settings, configs and software already installed.

     

    Maybe my first question wasn't clear enough, but what I meant was that I don't have a working network-connection, nevertheless I'm willing to (re-)install any software as long as I can preserve everything what is on the SD-card right now.

     

    So specifically I do want to put a distribution on a stick (but how exactly) and I do want to reinstall from this stick (but how exactly).

     

    Does this make my question somewhat clear?

     

    Hope this helps in answering.

     

    Thanks in advance for all advice, BR, Schimanski

  • in reply to Former Member

    Hi there, I'd suggest the same but get another 2-4GB card then use that. Inpractice you will need this card in the future when you are doing upgrades and stuff in the future so it won't be a waste and should be only a very few £ or $

  • Also if you haven't changed any of the automatic boot up configuration you should have the network start on boot up ... Has the link light even come on , on either the router or RPI?

  • in reply to Problemchild

    As far as memory serves, I think I deleted the DHCP software and the DNS software, maybe the latter is the problem.

     

    But nevertheless the suggestion is to start creating a new SD-card and than copying everything from the old one to the new one. right?

     

    Luckily I have a 32Gb card on my desk, available for that, unfortunately the raspberry doesn't recognize it. After startup, the bootberry tries to format it and gives the errormessage that the card's size isn't reported accurately, then end, full stop.

     

    Anybody a hints and a recipe for this?

     

    BR, Schimanski.

  • in reply to Former Member

    All,

     

    I've solved the problem.

     

    After some thinking and mainly due to not wanting to loose everything on the card, I concluded that changing form DHCP to a static IP-address was worth a try.

     

    Did that and since then my server is up and running again. Remains for me the question what did I delete what caused this behavior?

     

    But now I've bought some time to figure that out. Anyway in between I figured how to backup a SD-card, so that's done too.

     

    BR, Schimanski