On 29-May-2001 Adam Goode wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 05:58:07AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: >> On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:38:03PM +0200, morten wrote: >> > There are, of course, another problem... >> > I do dhcp to get the ip adress, and that works, but when it has gotten its >> > IP >> > adress it stops communicating with the outside world. I have to set the >> > promisc >> > mode and tried changing media 100base2 and 10base2, but that was not it. >> >> i don't know about this, sounds like the crappy ethernet chips used in >> these machines. >> > > Indeed it is! And the result is that "pump" kills your connection. Try > setting up a static IP address during the install, then switching to > dhcp-client later. > I have installed potato enough to boot from hte hdd. So I am modifying the config files directly, and I thought I would add a net driver in the modules.conf - with the proper parameter of course. Are you suggesting that I remove eth0 completely and afterwards I install eth0 manually with a staic IP?
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