Re: eepro100 and dhcp on new kernel

I figured out that I had to enable those options in the kernel.

How do I to tell dpkg to uninstall the kernel it installed ?

I don't want to have two many of those hanging around

>From: Kevin McKinley

>To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org

>Subject: Re: eepro100 and dhcp on new kernel

>Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 17:46:43 -0400

>On Tue, 27 May 2003 15:42:31 -0400

>"Harry Barnes" wrote:

> > Hi,

> > I just did my first ever kernel compile in trying to get sound to work on

> > my laptop. I have an ethernet card which works with the eepro100 driver .

> > This same card does not work with the new kernel. The kernel sees it

> > alright and starts it up but the card fails to get an IP from the dhcp

> > server. I use netenv and i am not sure if it has anything to do with it.

> > dhclient -e does not show an error and ifconfig shows the eth0 zero

> > interface without an IP.

>You've raised two different issues. Does the card not work or does dhcp not

>work? Can you assign a static address [with ifconfig]?

>I'm guessing your real problem is dhcp. In menconfig, go to "Networking

>options" and be sure the first "Packet socket" and sixth "Socket filtering"

>options have asterisks next to them. These are required by the default dhcp

>client.

>Kevin

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