Re: 2.4.20 kernel and RTL8139
What happens if you try manually (as root) to assign an IP address using
DHCP:
/sbin/dhclient eth0
When you compiled the new kernel, did you include the PACKET and FILTER
options under networking? THese are required for dhcp client.
Hope this helps.
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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Alexander Borghgraef wrote:
> I'm having a problem getting my on-board NIC to work with the 2.4.20
> kernel. I was using Debian with the old 2.2 kernel, under which the
> network card worked fine. Then I upgraded to the 2.4.20 kernel, and
> suddenly I'm unable to connect to the dhcp server. Using lilo to boot
> the old kernel still works fine.
> Before you ask, yes I did include the 8139 card in menuconfig. When
> I run ifconfig, eth0 appears in the list alongside lo (loopback device),
> but it doesn't get an IP address like it did in 2.2. Pinging the network
> card (127.0.0.1) works, but that's lo I guess? Has anyone had similar
> problems, and if so, how do you solve them?
>
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