Re: 2.4.20 kernel and RTL8139

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

Hi Alex

Are you using dhclient? And have you checked /etc/dhclient.conf.  All 
it needs here is hostname and seems to work fine - I am running 2.4.18. 
 It may sound silly but it is also worth checking your ethernet cable 
setup - I spent 5 night's wrestling with a similar problem to find that 
I'd wired the cable incorrectly d'oh! ;-)

If dhclient doesn't work you could try pump.

Regards

Clive


On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 12:12  pm, 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?
>
> --
> Alex Borghgraef

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