Yup, that did the trick! Thanks a lot, I started to get a serious headache from hitting the wall for hours. ;-) Makes me wonder though: Why the heck does Woody default come with dhclient if it doesn't even work with kernel 2.4? I'd suspect this is a problem more people will run into. Anyway, thanks a lot! Auke On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 13:03, Jose M. Gomez wrote: > On Sunday 27 October 2002 12:17, Auke Jilderda wrote: > > I'm running kernel 2.4.18 with dhclient as dhcp client. Any suggestion > > on what the problem might be? > > Hi, have you tried pump instead of dhclient?. I have a 2.4.18 as well and > everything was working fine with the network card at home, but for some > reason I couln't use dhcp in university. After a couple of days of hitting my > head agaisnt the wall (and use a "stolen" fixed ip address) I tried " > pump" and it worked without problems. So you could try to remove dhclient and > install pump. By the way, in the manpage or in the package description, > cannot remember now, it said something like it is for 2.2.x, so probably that > is why it doesn't work with 2.4.x, at least for me. Could that be because > woody shipped with a default 2.2.x? (has that changed?). > > Hope it helps > -- PGP: 0x4A34DD6D, http://bunny.sourceforge.net/
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