Re: ifconfig

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Peter" == Peter van Oene <pvo@usermail.com> writes:

    Peter> 1: DHCP doens't work. I have used etherconf to set them to
    Peter> auto and also ran dhclient (i don't seem to have dhcpcd).
    Peter> Ethereal displays no packets at all leaving the interface
    Peter> (bootp requests etc)

The ISC dhcp client requires that the packet CONFIG_NETFILTER and
CONFIG_PACKET be available in the kernel. Perhaps you missed one of
these as a module or built in in your 2.4.20 kernel?

Shyamal