I had this problem. There are actually two different DHCP clients available
for Linux (I had this problem under Mandrake 7.0), (check your RPMs to see
if this is the case in 8.0). I found that one worked great, the other
didn't work at all for me.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Romanator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] My evaluation of New Traktopel Beta Mandrake 8
> Rog wrote:
> >
> > Anyone use DHCP to connect to your cable ISP? I do, (optimum online)
> > and 8.0 doesn't seem to want to do it...in 7.2, when I'd boot up, it
> > occasionally wouldn't go online, but I just type in (as root)
> > /sbin/dhcpcd and away it would go! No such luck here. Any tips?
> >
> > Oh, and when eth0 is initializing at boot, it hangs, and then says
> > something along the lines of timing out because it can't find a valid
> > IP or something...yet Windows goes online just fine...
> >
> > On Sun, 11 Mar 2001 17:18:49 +0200, you wrote:
> >
> > >After the installation I had the same problem with ppp, but I fixed
this
> > >problem by putting additional lines in my modules.conf in accordance
with
> > >kernel 2.4.2 changes doc for using ppp as modules.
> > >
> > >Andris
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> > >Behalf Of Neville Cobb
> > >Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 12:40 PM
> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >Cc: Vic
> > >Subject: Re: [newbie] My evaluation of New Traktopel Beta Mandrake 8
> > >
> > >
> > >Vic wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hello list.
> > >>
> > >> Upon installing the new Beta Mandrake Traktopel 8
> > >> release on a system using an AMD K6-400 cpu,
> > >> 192Mb system ram, S3 Virge video card, 10Gb Quantum harddrive UDMA
33,
> > >> with VIA chipset, AWE64 Soundblaster ISA card, a zip250
> > >> using the zip zoom card (aic7xxx), an old unix BTC cdrom,
> > >> and lastly a Plextor 8/4/32A Cd recorder.
> > >>
> > >> I found the installation went ok in expert mode, one little hang up
on
> > >> setting up networking, it would not let you click on yes or no,
> > >> BUT, you could bypass this by going on to the next step,
> > >> then when it cama back, you could just click on uhh, skip or
> > >> something like that, and do it later after installation finished.
> > >
> > >I had the same problem an could not connect to the internet via a modem
> > >after the installation. Following your install were you able to connect
> > >via ppp? If you could then I must be doing something wrong.
> > >
> > >Nev
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
> It's not fair to compare any beta with a finished product.
> --
> Roman
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