Re: dhcp with kernel 2.4?
Carl Fink wrote:
> In order to get support for a Netgear FA311 NIC, I've upgraded to
> kernel 2.4.2 (on Potato). It's working okay, except it's useless.
>
> That is, I can use tcpdump and see that the card is receiving
> packets, but none of the three DHCP clients in Potato (pump,
> dhclient, dhcpcd) work with kernel 2.4. I might actually upgrade
> to Woody, except that, well, I can't use the cable modem to do that
> until I get DHCP working. (I'm sending this using a 56K modem.)
>
> Anyone know a way to use dhcp with Potato and a 2.4 kernel?
>
The previous poster was right. I had some recent troubles getting
dhclient to work on a woody system with a custom kernel
Finally I looked in /var/log/daemon.log and saw:
Nov 6 07:27:43 debian dhclient-2.2.x: socket: Protocol not available -
make sure CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER are defined in your kernel
configuration!
After rebuilding the kernel with both of these options on, dhclient
worked perfectly
TRS
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