Re: Network Issues

[Colin Keefe <ckeefe@sasktel.net>]

* Peter van Oene <pvo@usermail.com> [2002-12-05 09:59 -0500]:

> Good call.  I built a lean 2.4.20 kernel and things seem to work 
> well.  However, I lost DHCP on my NICs in the process.  They are regular 
> Realtek 10/100 and the driver loads fine, however I cannot get them to 
> transmit bootp requests.   ifconfig detects them, and if I manually add 
> addresses, they work ok.
> 
> Normally, I would just mess with these awhile until I got them working, 
> however some poking around my libraries and dependencies has lead me to 
> concern about their status.  For example, depmod -v indicates many things 
> failing (net, ipv4 for example).  Is this normal?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Pete
> 
When you compiled your kernel did you set CONFIG_PACKET=y and
CONFIG_FILTER=y?  Without these DHCP won't work.
                                           HTH
                                             Colin

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