Failure of DHCPD on boot floppy.

kermitjunior · Apprentice Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 167

Hello,

I'm trying to install onto a laptop. Per the documentation here, I'm using Tomsrtbt. I even tried to roll my own kernel and such. However, I have a SMC7004AWBR (Barricade Wireless Router) that acts as my "DHCP" server. Gentoo works fine. Gentoo install works fine, too. But the boot floppy (Toms and my own) both can't connect to the outside world. I tried it on my bigbox and my laptop (card is reconized on both). Ping times out and wget can't resolve name.

Any ideas on what I can do to work around this?

Thanks.

Kermit
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Toshiba Satellite A15-S157, 2.2 Celery, 40GB, 512MB
AMD Athlon XP 1900+, 640MB PC2100, ABIT KG-7R
IBM 120GB (Linux), WD 30GB (WinDoze), ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Pro PCI

bodfa · n00b Joined: 26 Oct 2002 Posts: 2

Why don't you disable the DHCP, and switch to static... I know it is just a workaround. Also are you sure the card is good? Don't know, just brainstorming...

kermitjunior · Apprentice Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 167

How?

I'm gonna go check the HOWTO, but if you get a chance...

but how exactly would I go about doing that?

thank you
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Toshiba Satellite A15-S157, 2.2 Celery, 40GB, 512MB
AMD Athlon XP 1900+, 640MB PC2100, ABIT KG-7R
IBM 120GB (Linux), WD 30GB (WinDoze), ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Pro PCI