Aloha Don I am very happy I was able to help. One question for you before I answer yours. I still have to kill dhclient and netstart after a reboot.
Did you imply that after wiping out the hostname in rc.conf you can reboot and your dhcp is up? Now for your question. I have not had any problems starting x before or after. I was always redoing the /stand/sysinstall to get the dhcp up and then startx so that I had a network. Have you checked your /etc/hosts for the correct hostname? When I did not have that set properly, I had x complaining, but not just a grey screen. Good Luck Robert ----- Original Message ----- From: Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, May 31, 2004 11:52 am Subject: Re: Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help?? > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Aloha > > This sounds a whole lot like my DHCP problem. It was > > being > > discussed on this list earlier last week. I have > > attached my thread for your perusal. > > > > I have the same ethernet card as you. There is a > > workaround in the attachment that I am using (I also > > created a script to do it) but if someone comes up > > with a real fix it would be muck better. > > > > Read through my attachment and see if you think we > > have the same problem. > > > > Robert > > > Thanks for the help....I killed any open dhclients and > then did the netstart....it still wasn't working until > I took a peek at my rc.conf and deleted the hostname > line and made sure ifconfig_sk0="DHCP" and the appends > were deleted...I then rebooted and viola!!! it > works!!!! > > HOWEVER lol I now can't seem to get into X....It > worked before I got my NIC working correctly and now > when I startx it gets to the dark grey sceen where the > pointer looks like an "X" and sits there. I'll play > around with it some when I get back from my folks > house but did you have that problem after you got your > NIC working? > > Thanks again for ppinting me to your earlier > conversation. It was a tremendous help > > Don > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. > http://messenger.yahoo.com/ > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
