I'm having a weird problem during a Gentoo install on some seemingly unrelated machines. The problem seems specific to dhcpcd, though beyond that I cannot tell what's wrong.
I boot up with a CD burned off the most current (1.4) "Basic" LiveCD, and cannot get dhcpcd to work. It ends immediately (no wait, no error msg), and a subsequent ifconfig shows only lo. I run lsmod, and the module for the card is loaded, as well as a module called "mii," which lists the nic's module as a dependency. When I look at /var/log/everything/current, I see the following lines repeated many times: Oct 25 21:40:40 [dhcpcd] dhcpStop: ioctl SIOSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor Oct 25 21:40:40 [dhcpcd] dhcpStop: ioctl SIOCSIFFLAGS: Bad file descriptor Oct 25 21:40:40 [dhcpcd] dhcpStop: terminating on signal 4 Now the strange part: I have several systems in this lab that when booted with the same LiveCD work just fine. Then there are these systems that experience the problem, and they're totally different from each other. The only thing I can think of that they have in common is that they're relatively old. One is a IBM PC 300GL (P233/MMX) with an SMC 9432TX NIC, the others are clones based on a Tekram P5T30-B4 motherboard (latest BIOS update) with a 3C905B-TX. We also tried a D-Link card with a RTL8139 chipset in both of these machines; same result. The problem therefore seems unrelated to the NIC being used or the BIOS on the motherboard. Finally, when setting the IP address manually, everything works. It's only dhcpcd that's having the problem. Has anyone else seen this? Many thanks in advance, --c.r. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
