On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:49:00AM -0700, Paul Schwartz wrote: > I just made and installed my first kernel [2.4.18]! and booted too! > One problem is that the network initialization that used to occur > [2.4.18-bf24] doesn't. > The ether net card is recognized but my machine no longer does an > inquiry to the router to get an address. The dhcp on bootup is used only if you want to mount the root filesystem over network. See the kernel docs for details. The userspace configuration is done in /etc/init.d/network, and /etc/network/*. Look for dhcp in interfaces(5). -- Jan Minar "Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed." x 4
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