hey, I have a 3c509 NIC.
I tried getting an IP for this NIC by using DHCP. (I used dhcpcd) But for some odd reason, it wouldn't work, and so I stfw'ed. (searched the fucking web). looking at various mailing lists, i found that I wasn't the only one with the same problem, the common solution was to disable PNP, and try again. I followed the steps as show, with no luck in the end. I tried both linux-2.4.6, linux-2.2.19pre17 (The one with potatoe) and various dhcp clients (dhcpcd, pump, etc) and none have worked. But today, on the same box I tried installing openbsd, and I found that DHCP worked right out of the install. This made me wonder once again why it doesn't work under linux. Does anyone have any insight on why this happens only in linux? (I tried under windows, and it works there too) Thanks Sunny Dubey