dhcpd help [solved]

shrndegruv · l33t Joined: 18 Sep 2005 Posts: 658

Hi

I recently hosed my system by mucking up udev and just about have everything working again. The one outstanding issue is that networking does not start at bootup. All I have to do to get it working is run /sbin/dhcpd. How do I automate that?

I thought dhcpd was for having a computer serve out ip addresses for dhcp, but I guess I was incorrect in thinking that.

The error from /var/log/messages is

Dec 25 21:07:24 Nooticles rc-scripts: ERROR: Problem starting needed services.
Dec 25 21:07:24 Nooticles rc-scripts: "netmount" was not started.

Any advice?

Kvetch · Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2006 1:00 am Post subject:

I believe this error is caused because your NIC module is not loaded in your kernel. If you know the module name you can modprobe module-name
Then restart your net-eth0

Or if the module is there add it to load at bootup. /etc/modules.autoload/kernelxxxxxxx.

If the module isn't there then recompile the kernel and find your driver and add it to be compiled in or as a module.

shrndegruv · l33t Joined: 18 Sep 2005 Posts: 658

the module is loaded, I see the recognition when I watched the machine boot.

reemerging dhcpcd did the trick.

thanx