On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 16:32, Yury Sulsky wrote: > 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, I just had the same expierence, change, CONFIG_FILTER=Y CONFIG_PACKET=y # CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP is not set # CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV is not set # CONFIG_NETFILTER is not set # CONFIG_FILTER is not set -- Greg C. Madden Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
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