You might try to use the "-h" option on pump (to request a specific
hostname). Make sure you have the latest version of pump (0.6.7-2mdk I
believe). If so, you might want to try a different DHCP client (i.e.
dhcpcd).
I believe the pump commandline for the hostname thing would be
pump -i eth0 -h $HOSTNAME
I hear (by way of Axalon) that some DHCP servers require the client to
specify a hostname.
"man dhcpcd" could tell you more, but it doesn't work on my system, and
the pump man page isn't very verbose on that subject (or any other).
dhcpcd is available for download from:
http://www.cps.msu.edu/~dunham/out/dhcpcd-1.3.17-pl2.tar.gz (for
2.2 kernels)
-Matt
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Theo Brinkman wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting hooked up to the network at work. We're
> using DHCP, but my machine doesn't seem to be getting assigned an IP
> address.
> --
> On boot I see:
> Bringing up eth0
> Delaying initialization of eth0 [FAILED]
> --
> When I run ifconfig, I see the following for eth0:
>
> eth0 Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:86:35:95:EA
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> Interrupt:9 Base address:0x300
> --
> After wards, eth0 quietly vanishes, leaving just the 'lo' entry.
>
> - Theo
>
