I want to reinstall mac osx lion and for that I need to enter recovery mode and choose reinstall mac osx lion but it warns me that I don't have an internet connection, that is because I have to manually set the ip, subnet mask, router and dns, but I can't find a way of doing it in recovery mode if anybody knows how please help me
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
I don't think you can, but you could enable your wireless or Ethernet connection using DHCP, which is the preferred method.
Hi 🙂
according to http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
you will require DHCP for any of the fucntions using an internet connection - see the section Supported network configurations and protocols
You can manually configure the IP address using Terminal (under the Utilites menu in Lion Recovery):
networksetup -setmanual ethernet [IP Address] [Subnet Mask] [Default Gateway]
ex: networksetup -setmanual ethernet 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.254
To Set DNS to get to websites (example will be for Google's DNS service)
networksetup -setdnsservers ethernet 8.8.8.8
I regularly have to do this on new Macs I am preparing to deploy. A system has to have a registered ethernet MAC address before it can receive a DHCP address.
How to manually set ip, subnet mask, router and dns in recovery mode?
