Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd won't run at certain network points

2007-03-28 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 22:22:29 -0400 rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...But I don't know how to tell your card to switch to 100 Mps on Gentoo. 'ethtool' is a program that can do so. -- Dan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd won't run at certain network points

2007-03-24 Thread rob
On Wednesday 14 March 2007 12:02, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 14 March 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi all, Why am I always the one to get the wierd hardware issues? Here's my latest. The powers that be at work made me move my desk, and dhcpcd on *this* laptop doesn't work at *this* network

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd won't run at certain network points

2007-03-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 20 March 2007, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2007 16:02, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 14 March 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: With a static ip, I do get full bandwidth, error free, just like it should be. So whatever this cabling issue is, it affects only bootp... hardware: Dell Latitude

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd won't run at certain network points

2007-03-21 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 10:46, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 20 March 2007, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2007 16:02, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 14 March 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: With a static ip, I do get full bandwidth, error free, just like it should be. So whatever this cabling issue is,

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd won't run at certain network points

2007-03-21 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 21 March 2007, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 21 March 2007 10:46, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 20 March 2007, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2007 16:02, Uwe Thiem wrote: Have you tried to force your NIC down to 100Mb/s early in the boot process? Assuming your network is FastEthernet,

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd won't run at certain network points

2007-03-21 Thread Dan Farrell
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:54:00 +0200 Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21 March 2007, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 21 March 2007 10:46, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 20 March 2007, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2007 16:02, Uwe Thiem wrote: Have you tried to force your NIC down to 100Mb/s

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd won't run at certain network points

2007-03-20 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 14 March 2007 16:02, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 14 March 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: With a static ip, I do get full bandwidth, error free, just like it should be. So whatever this cabling issue is, it affects only bootp... hardware: Dell Latitude D810: NIC: 02:00.0 Ethernet

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd won't run at certain network points

2007-03-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 15 March 2007, Patrice Bouvard wrote: Le Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:57:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : don't want to have to keep editing resolv.conf Then, don't edit it every time you change network. Just keep it with a lot of entries. If one doesn't work, the

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd won't run at certain network points

2007-03-14 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Wednesday 14 March 2007 15:57, Alan McKinnon wrote: I would use google, if only I could think of a remotely meaningful search string :-) The hdcpcd docs and kernel module docs are not very enlightening. And the DHCP server is a Windows domain controller. But do your DHCP requests show up

RE: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd won't run at certain network points

2007-03-14 Thread Nelson, David \(ED, PARD\)
-Original Message- From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 March 2007 14:57 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd won't run at certain network points It's most certainly a cabling issue, I can go to the server room and plug a flylead into

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd won't run at certain network points

2007-03-14 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 14 March 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi all, Why am I always the one to get the wierd hardware issues? Here's my latest. The powers that be at work made me move my desk, and dhcpcd on *this* laptop doesn't work at *this* network point, or any of the other four in this row of desks,

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd won't run at certain network points

2007-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 14 March 2007, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Wednesday 14 March 2007 15:57, Alan McKinnon wrote: I would use google, if only I could think of a remotely meaningful search string :-) The hdcpcd docs and kernel module docs are not very enlightening. And the DHCP server is a Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd won't run at certain network points

2007-03-14 Thread Patrice Bouvard
Le Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:57:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : don't want to have to keep editing resolv.conf Then, don't edit it every time you change network. Just keep it with a lot of entries. If one doesn't work, the next one will be used. Name resolution could be a

Re: [gentoo-user] dhcpcd won't run at certain network points

2007-03-14 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:16:28 +0100 Patrice Bouvard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:57:04 +0200, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : don't want to have to keep editing resolv.conf Then, don't edit it every time you change network. Just keep it with a lot of