Re: Networking configuration?

[Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@mindspring.com>]

On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 at 12:43am, Mark Schouten wrote:

:On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:15:53PM -0500, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
:
:> Where are the configuration files to automate all this?  It used to work,
:> but I have recently been messing with the box - I updated everything
:> updatable with aptitude, I've recompiled the kernel a few times, I finally
:> got sound and my cd drive and a USB scanner working, but somewhere along
:> the line I broke networking!
:
:It seems that your kernel is not supporting DHCP, which it did first.
:
:Read /var/log/daemon.log (i believe) to see the solution.

Aha!  Thanks.  CONFIG_PACKET was set, but CONFIG_FILTER was not.  Setting
the latter re-enabled dhcp.

Thanks to all who suggested a static solution; I prefer the dynamic.

Patrick

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