Re: Still can't get a DHCP address
I know there are complications using DHCP with more than one ethernet card. I
personally am not that familiar with them. You said you tried switching your LAN to
eth1. Do you mean by this that you switched the cables and ran DHCP on eth0? It may be
that with the version of DHCP and kernel you're running you can only do DHCP on eth0.
This sounds weird I know. I would do some searching of the linux news groups on
deja.com.
Daniel Lesage wrote:
> Well, I'm still unable to get an IP address, using either dhcpcd or
> dhclient under slink.
>
> I'm using loadlin to boot the computer (LILO won't install on it).
> I'm including (1) the contents of my loadlin param file.
>
> (2) is a dump of dmesg. There's a number of errors in there (apache,
> for example) I haven't gotten around to try to fix yet. From what
> I can tell, it's recognizing both NICs correctly.
>
> To get Linux to recognize the second NIC, I had to edit
> /etc/network (3).
>
> ifconfig -a (4) shows both NICs configured correctly, including IRQs
> and addresses. I tried switching my LAN to eth1, and that worked, so
> configuration should be OK. One strange thing is that if I run
> ifconfig without the -a switch, eth1 does not show up.
>
> When I run dhclient eth1, I get error messages (5) and still no IP
> address on eth1.
>
> dhcpcd also failed to get an IP address, but showed nothing in syslog.
>
> Does anyone have any insight they want to share?
>
> Dan.
>
> (1) linuxpar.1:
>
> # EDIT THIS BEFORE USING !
> #
> # this is an example commandline parameter file for LOADLIN
> # You may have comments starting with "#" at any place
> # comments end at end of a line
> # any number of empty lines may be inserted.
> # The contents are compacted by LOADLIN to produce an as small
> # commandline as possible.
> # For more commandline options see the file PARAMS.DOC.
> #
> # There can only be one parameter file and LOADLIN must be called as:
> # LOADLIN @param_file
> # However, the parameters in param_file may be overwritten by
> # (or appended to) those following the @param_file, e.g:
> # LOADLIN @param_file image=other_image root=/dev/other
> #
> #
> c:\loadlin\Vmlinuz
> # first value must be the filename of the Linux-kernel
> # if this should be changed at load time,
> # the keyword 'image=' must be used (see above)
>
> -v # verbose the actual params, but load anyway
> #-t # write debug output and stop.
> #-d c:\dump # write debug output to file c:\dump and stop.
>
> vga=extended # legal values are:
> # numeric:
> # -3 ask
> # -2 extended
> # -1 normal
> # 0..9 as if entered on boot-prompt
> # symbolic:
> # ask
> # normal
> # extended
> # However, starting with Linux-1.3.75 the code for
> # vga=has changed, to get the actual values for your
> # special video card, you should use 'ask' and remember
> # the values that were printed on screen.
> #
> # See also linux/Documentation/svga.txt
>
> root=/dev/hdb3 # the device which gets mounted as root FS
> # root=201 # NOTE: the numeric device tokens are hexa !
> # root=/dev/sda1
> # ....
>
> ro
> # rw
>
> #initrd=..\initdisk.gz # This file gets loaded as 'initial ramdisk'
> # see initrd.txt for more
>
> #noinitrd # This keyword is usefull, if you wany get
> # the 'initial ramdisk' loaded, but not
> # processed at startup.
> # It will remain as /dev/initrd.
>
> # this can be used in /etc/rc to do some special work
> #MY_SPECIAL_OPTION=what_I_need
>
> #ether=10,0x230,0xc8000,0xcbfff,eth0
> #ether=9,0x240,0xd0000,0xd3fff,eth1
> #ether=10,0x280,0xd0000,0xd3fff,eth0
>
> =====================================================
>
> (2) dmesg:
>
> Linux version 2.2.6 (root@firemoth) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #5 SMP Mon Aug 16
> 20:13:55 EST 1999
> mapped APIC to ffffe000 (00215000)
> mapped IOAPIC to ffffd000 (00216000)
> Detected 99720166 Hz processor.
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x50
> Calibrating delay loop... 39.73 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 63364k/65536k available (808k kernel code, 416k reserved, 908k
> data, 40k init)
> Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 1.56 usecs.
> CPU0: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 05
> SMP motherboard not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfc7d7
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
> Starting kswapd v 1.5
> Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
> pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> CMD640: ignored by ide_scan_pci_device() (uses own driver)
> ide0: buggy cmd640b interface on PCI (type1), config=0x5e
> ide1: not serialized, secondary interface not cmd640
> cmd640: drive0 timings/prefetch(off) preserved
> cmd640: drive1 timings/prefetch(off) preserved
> hda: Maxtor 71260 AT, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: SAMSUNG WN316025A (1.6 GB), ATA DISK drive
> hdc: MATSHITA CR-589, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: Maxtor 71260 AT, 1204MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=612/64/63
> hdb: SAMSUNG WN316025A (1.6 GB), 1536MB w/109kB Cache, CHS=3121/16/63
> hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
> Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.54
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1
> hdb: [PTBL] [780/64/63] hdb1 hdb2 hdb3
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 40k freed
> Adding Swap: 66020k swap-space (priority -1)
> eth0: 3c509 at 0x230 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 60 97 18 8a b3, IRQ 10.
> 3c509.c:1.16 (2.2) 2/3/98 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov.
> ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
> NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x240: 00 80 c8 ec 0a db
> eth1: NE2000 found at 0x240, using IRQ 9.
> Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
>
> =====================================================
>
> (3) /etc/network
>
> #! /bin/sh
> modprobe ne
> ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1
> route add -net 127.0.0.0
> IPADDR=192.168.0.2
> NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> NETWORK=192.168.0.0
> BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
> GATEWAY=
> ifconfig eth1 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
> route add -net ${NETWORK}
> [ "${GATEWAY}" ] && route add default gw ${GATEWAY} metric 1
>
> =====================================================
>
> (4) ifconfig -a (before running dhclient)
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
> RX packets:86 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:86 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> Collisions:0
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C8:EC:0A:DB
> inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> Collisions:0
> Interrupt:9 Base address:0x240
>
> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:97:18:8A:B3
> unspec addr:[NONE SET] Bcast:[NONE SET] Mask:[NONE SET]
> BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> Collisions:0
> Interrupt:10 Base address:0x230
>
> =====================================================
>
> (5) dhclient output
>
> SIOCSIFNETMASK: Cannot assign requested address
> SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Cannot assign requested address
> SIOCSIFNETMASK: Cannot assign requested address
> SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Cannot assign requested address
> eth1: not found
> exiting.
>
> =====================================================
>
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