On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 05:24:18PM -0500, Clint A. Brubakken wrote: > I've had linux on my laptop for a few weeks and have had no major > problems (except this morning after trying KDE's GUI LILO config prog, > doh!!) > > There are three little things that aren't working and I wish they did. > > First: DHCP > I tried and tried to get it to run with pcmcia utils, and > even tried by hand but nothing worked. > I was using dhcpcd which I got from the stable > update page. > I'm now using netenv, but it would be nice if that would > have worked. I couldn't even find any logs of anything on what the problem > was.
Well I will take a stab at this one. Since I run a stinkpad, I know nothing about the other problems. I presume you are trying to run a dhcp client. If you are trying to implement a host, you have to hack on the conf file for it. For a client though, I used straight dhcpcd for quite some time until I went to a 2.2 kernel. With that you need to add dhcpcd-sv. There is an alternative to both, the pump package (from redhat) that I have seen work here. But I keep having to zap it and revert to dhcpcd and dhcpcd-sv in order to get connected. Ah, yes, you may need to tell the device: IFACE=eth0 in /etc/dhcpcd/config. PS: To h___ with those gui progs and other things that you cannot tell what they are doing! About the most automation I wanna see is dpkg from the command line :-) HTH... DaveW -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . . . . This computer is running Debian/GNU Linux! A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.
