Thus spake Lance Hoffmeyer: > I installed a a base fileserver this morning using Potato Reiser boot > floppies. Everything went fine. I am on a DHCP system and during > installation the IP addr was assigned and I had internet access. I > installed the rest of the files using Debian/testing. I created 5 10G > partitions and installed the Reiser FS on them. The problem is that > the 2.2.19 kernel would not recognize the Reiser FS? Maybe a newer > reiserfsprogs that causes problems with 2.2.19 kernel (Just guessing?) > > So, I compiled a 2.4.14 kernel with Reiser support. The only network > options I added was the Intel NIC I was using. The kernel compiled, > I rebooted and I was able to mount the Reiser partitions I had created > earlier. BUT, DHCP quit working. I ran ifconfig and no IP addr had > been assigned. I could ping localhost but nothing else. > > Are there any options I need to pick in the networking or network > devices section to get DHCP working on a compiled kerenl or should > it DHCP work "out of the box" without modifying any make menuconfig > options? > > I started a new install again as in the first paragraph with the same > results, DHCP worked but Reiser partition could not be read. I am > guessing that kernel 2.2.19 cannot read a Reiser FS created from a > Debian/testing reiserfsprogs but I am not sure why I could not get > DHCP working after compiling 2.4.14 kernel? Any ideas? I don't know exactly where the problem is, but I suspect the potato version of DHCP. I had exactly the same problem when I went from a 2.2 to 2.4 kernel - DHCP just died, and without any findable (at least by me, at that point - I might be smarter now) error messages in my logs. Installing the dhcp-client from Woody solved it for me. HTH, Steve -- <SirDibos> does Johnie Ingram hang out here on IRC?
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