On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 08:53:14AM -0500, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote: > The previous poster was right. I had some recent troubles getting > dhclient to work on a woody system with a custom kernel > > Finally I looked in /var/log/daemon.log and saw: > > Nov 6 07:27:43 debian dhclient-2.2.x: socket: Protocol not available - > make sure CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER are defined in your kernel > configuration!
Yes, but I did that before mailing. I no longer get those errors, but dhclient still says: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:02:e3:16:b4:c5 Sending on LPF/eth0/00:02:e3:16:b4:c5 Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 p DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 p DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 p DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 p DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 p No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net>