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RE: Kernel Upgrade Problems - IBM T23



Zane

It is the built-in Ethernet interface, I believe Intel EtherPro 100 or
some variation.  Seems to DHCP fine based off the initial ide-pci
minimal install.  

Which specific config files should I copy when I upgrade my kernel to
2.4.8 and I assume I'll have to recompile the module for 2.4.8 as well?

I did try to configure it in interfaces but it seems to not want to dhcp
an address so I thought I was missing something.

Sorry for the newbie questions, I'm actually pretty good when it comes
to routing/switching if you ever need any help there... :)

Zach

-----Original Message-----
From: Zane Dodson [mailto:zdodson@zdodson.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 12:08 AM
To: Zach Bower
Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Kernel Upgrade Problems - IBM T23


On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 11:56:14PM -0400, Zach Bower wrote: <snip>
| 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.
<snip>

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



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