Re: ethernet configuration
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Stephen Monroe wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm having trouble getting my ethernet to work properly. I'm in a dorm room
> at a university that supplies ethernet and I KNOW it worked last year. I'm
> dual booted and I used my winmodem in Win98 over the summer (and
> unsuccessfully tried to configure it for Linux). This is all I can think
> that would have disturbed the ethernet configuration.
>
> The driver is "tulip" and it's a Netgear card.
> Here's what I've done so far (at the advice of others):
> I did "modprobe tulip" and then "dhcpcd eth0", but that still didn't solve
> the problem. Neither commands returned anything.
>
> my /etc/init.d/network file contians:
> #! /bin/sh
> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> route add -net 127.0.0.0
>
> The lights on my card are actually lit up and blinking,(supposedly showing
> data transmission, I think) but I can't ping any servers or anything.
This is how I've been able to sucessfully use DHCP with Debian slink. I
use version 2.0 of ISC's DHCP client
(http://www.isc.org/view.cgi?/products/DHCP/index.phtml). Unfortunately,
there aren't any .debs available for this version, and I wouldn't trust
what's the version of dhclient included in Debian, so you'll have to
compile it from source. Here's the /etc/dhclient.conf that I use:
send host-name <the host name you want to use, in quotes>;
request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers, domain-name, domain-name-servers;
script "/etc/dhclient-script";
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"There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstien
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