Re: [newbie] DHCP, Pump commands and Cable Modem Setup

[Dennis Veatch]

"Thomas F. RuBane" wrote:

> Hi Roman & All:
>
> I'm using Mandrake 7.1 (With an automatic install)
> and a Netgear 310tx which is a tulip chipset compatible card.
> My DSL service uses DHCP, but I haven't gotten that working either. I
> entered all the information manually (I checked using winipcfg the get the
> info). I have installed the dhcp-client. Previously, linux would recognize
> eth0, but I could not get it up using ifconfig. I did a reinstall of linux,
> and now doing ifconfig -a will not even show that there is an eth0
> interface.

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Have you set the NIC to use dhclient?