On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 14:57, Christian Riis wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install Gentoo on an old machine, but I run into a > problem with getting it on the net. When the machine boots it > apparently autodetects the NIC but when I rund 'dhcpcd eth0', I get > a hundred million entries in /var/log/everything/current that look > like this: > > [dhcpcd]: dhcpStop: ioctl SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor > [dhcpcd]: dhcpStop: ioctl SIOCSIFFLAGS: Bad file descriptor > [dhcpcd]: terminating on signal 4 > > What do they mean and what can I do to fix it? I have tried with two > different NIC's, none of them work, but they both work in win95, > which is installed on the computer. > > Thanks in advance. > Christian
You could try giving the machine a fixed ip by editing /etc/conf.d/net and see if it works then. If not, then dhcp is not the problem.
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