Re: kernel recompile takes the "work" out of "network"

["Yury Sulsky" <ysulsky@hotmail.com>]

I'm pretty sure that I'm using dhclient, that's what gets installed by
default, right?

Actually thanks for you help guys, but recompiling the kernel isn't that
important... I guess I can keep the default one until I figure out what I'm
doing wrong.


Thanks again,
Yury

> On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 08:22, Crispin Wellington wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 11:49, Yury Sulsky wrote:
> > > Crispin, thanks for replying.
> > >
> > > I checked "dmesg | grep tulip" and "dmesg | grep eth0", and the
returned
> > > lines looked the same as what I got with the default kernel. Besides,
> > > wouldn't "ifconfig -a" not find eth0 if the tulip driver wasn't
working?
> >
> > yes. true.
> >
> > > I also installed the dhcping package, which checks to see if DHCP is
> > > working, and while it worked with the default kernel, there was no
response
> > > in the recompiled one.
> > >
> > > I've attached the config file for the kernel like you asked - you're
> > > probably right in saying it's the config file, since I'm pretty new at
this
> > > and so had almost no clue what I was choosing when I configured it.
> >
> > It looks fine to me. Perhaps theres some obscure parameter that needs to
> > be set that DHCP uses internally. Perhaps someone else knows exactly
> > what? Somebody? Somebody? Bueller?
> >
> > What errors if any does DHCP give you? Can you run it under strace and
> > see what its doing, or is it just silently (not) running?
>
> Is it just DHCP that doesn't work or is there other bits of the network
> that are not working. Try using ifconfig to set an address and netmask
> and to bring the interface up - then try pinging that interface. If this
> works, the network driver should be working fine.
>
> What client are you using - i remember a little while ago that a client
> that worked on 2.2 doesnt work on 2.4. I use dhclient and that works
> fine. pump is also supposed to work fine.
>
> HTH,
>
>
> Shri
>
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