dhcpcd problems

DarthDam · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2002 Posts: 3

Hi

When i boot from a basic1.2 iso image dhcpcd works nicely (with the occasinal error message), and my computer gets an ip. When i boot from a basic 1.4, or a 1.4 stage 3 installation, dhcpcd hangs for a while, and returns without any message, and my computer hasn't got an ip (and no network connect).

If i try manually to assign 10.0.0.3 via ifconfig (setting up static ip) and up's the NIC, it gets upped, but network is unreachable.

I have MB mounted a realtek 8139 type NIC, on a celeron 4 1.7.

Any help/info appreciated.

kr. ld

38282 · n00b Joined: 22 Oct 2002 Posts: 21 Location: Copenhagen

I'm sure that you've thought about this, but just in case, are you sure that a workable NIC module is available to the kernel?

/Paul

DarthDam · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2002 Posts: 3

I guess when it says 'loading module 8139too - OK' at boot time means that the 8139too NIC module is loaded.

lsmod also says '8139too' is loaded.

kr. ld

Proteus · Posted: Sun Nov 03, 2002 10:23 pm Post subject:

I have the same problems with my Netgear FA311 card.
When using the 1.4 boot-cd it works - or not. You never know. I sometimes have to reboot multiple times and then it suddenly works.

Until now I was almost convinced that the card ist defect and I have to replace it (good that it came with 5 years warrany :-)

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tomkamphuys · Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2002 8:43 pm Post subject:

Same problem here. With install disk 1.2 I can dhcpcd and get my IP. But with the 1.4 system, dhcpcd doesn't work. I've opened a thread on the newby forum (few problems after new install), but the problem still hasn't been solved.
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eryvile · Apprentice Joined: 14 Aug 2002 Posts: 234 Location: europe

Proteus · Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 12:29 am Post subject:

Well, my problem persists not only when using a boot cd but also when the system is finally installed...
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sven · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 274

I encountered another problem with the latest dhcp client from the unstable branch. Sometimes when shutting down the computer, dhcp crashes on shutdown freezing the whole computer ...

tomkamphuys · Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 8:14 am Post subject:

@erivile: That's just what I did because the 1.4 cd doesn't support RAID. Everything installed perfectly, but now when I use the base system, I'm unable to get my IP address via DHCPCD. Even the -d options doesn't give any info....
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eryvile · Apprentice Joined: 14 Aug 2002 Posts: 234 Location: europe

tomkamphuys · Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 10:47 am Post subject:

I found the problem. It had something to do with APIC. I added the 'noapic' to the line with kernel and root in menu.lst That did it.
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DarthDam · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2002 Posts: 3

Got the problem solved!

I had two issues i tried to fix in one go; one with grub not finding the menu.lst file, and then the dhcp problem. I mention both things i did in case they should have interference with each other:

Getting my grub to boot: did a hard link from grub.conf to menu.lst (probably nothing to do with the dhcp problem, but since i modified this at the same time i did the other stuff i better mention it)

I found that my USB device had an IRQ conflict with my NIC, using cat /proc/pci. Then i compiled the kernel w/o USB support (I need to fix this later when i'm gonna use USB)

I also had to add 'noapic' to the root and kernel lines in grub.conf, e.g.:

root (hd0,0) noapic
kernel /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda3 noapic

I found the 'solutions' around here in the forum, my problem was that i had to combine the things in order to get them to work.

kr. ld

p.s. I used a 1.2 boot iso to install 1.4 from, otherwise i couldn't get my NIC to work. I also used a vanilla kernel.

nonhuman · Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2002 6:08 am Post subject:

If anyone knows how to fix it keeping USB support please post it. I'm having the same problem, but have a no-legacy motherboard (only USB for keyboard/mouse).