Thank you, Per Jessen, and others, for your suggestions. The link connection status is shown with 'ethtool', however that tool is not part of the Rescue session on the install DVD. The command 'ip addr show' has 'state DOWN' even with the nics cabled and connected to the network. Definitely getting closer to a solution.
Unfortunately there are multiple methods to check the link status and different drivers use different mehods and some cannot check the link status at all. The program ifplugstatus I suggested uses all all known methods for the check. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ It does, yet that command is not available when running in Rescue mode from a DVD. Best regards, James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org