-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Charles A Edwards wrote: > On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:59:19 +0200 > Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>My 9.1rc1 install on my laptop works fine on 2 different networks that >>use dhcp. > > Are you using fixed or dynamic IP? Dynamic on both. Plus the machine I am writing on now runs cooker and seems to be using dhclient just fine (it has a static mapping in our dhcp server, my laptop does not). > > As happens I do know what causes the problem on my system. > /etc/resolv.conf is an empty file > If edited and 'nameserver 192.168.0.1' is added Net access works. > The same is accomplished by installing and running dhcpcd. My only issue on rc1 was that tmdns was not allowing fall-through to the real dns server, so I normally just bumped it (127.0.0.1) to the end of the list of DNS servers. This is supposedly fixed? > > To me the benefit of using dhcpcd is that I only need 1 pkg not the 4 > installed by Network set-up/drakconnect. AFAIK you need 2 instead of dhcpcd, dhcp-common and dhcp-client? > Dhcpcd is also all that was Required and installed in previous Mandrake > installations for this set-up. > I have always just used the defaults ... since 6.1 IIRC. Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+ZkGqrJK6UGDSBKcRAk/MAJ9sds6k0MGAQBPyytUmi4kJoCCvrQCeNLIl DKid04/DGbCN/y6/K1UeNeY= =wlPt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
