Re: Kernel Upgrade Problems - IBM T23

[Zane Dodson <zdodson@zdodson.com>]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 11:56:14PM -0400, Zach Bower wrote:
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| I'm not sure if I'm missing something during the make config ( or
| actually, I used make xconfig), but it seems as though everything
| compiles fine and I specified to load the network drivers as modules but
| upon reboot, I can't manage to get my eth0 interface to DHCP an address.
| When I configure an IP address on it manually, I can ping local devices
| so obviously there must be more configuration I need to do when manually
| specifying an IP.  My question is, why am I unable to use DHCP?  Do I
| need pump or something like that?  I thought dhcpd would take care of
| it.
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Is eth0 builtin?  If so, you can configure it for DHCP via 
/etc/network/interfaces.  See the man page on interfaces(5):
   % man interfaces

If eth0 is a PC card, then you can specify to use DHCP when the
card is configured by setting
   DHCP="y"
in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts.

Hope that helps.

Best regards,

--
Zane Dodson
zdodson@zdodson.com