You are going to have to give us more detail than you provide in this message to get meaningful help. Please read the Troubleshooting Request HowTo, or the more concise list of needed basic information I posted to this list just a few days ago, to see the sorts of information we need. For now ...
Assuming RR still uses MAC-address authentication, your step 1 should be fine. >From what you do report, it looks like your step 2 is OK (but you want to be sure that the MAC address you provided to RR is the same NIC that is eth0). Your description of step 3 is simply too vague to say anything about. At 11:21 AM 2/12/02 -0600, Henning, Brian wrote: >Hello- > >I am having a problem connecting to my isp's dhcp server and i don't know >what i am doing wrong. >I am using the Dachstein floppy on a Pentium one. Here are the steps I have >made so far. >I have one nic (3 com 3c509B isa irq 7 mem address 350) in the machine >currently. I know the card works because I have tried it on my local >network. I will add another when I get it to communicate with the dhcp >server. > >1) I registered the mac address with my isp (road runner). They asked me if >I was running windows or MacOS. > I just told them windows, even though it is Linux ( i figure that >shouldn't matter what i tell them). >2) I uncommented the "3c509" line for my nic in the /etc/modules file. >3) I reboot and during the boot process it says it cannot authenticate with >the dhcp server. > >I did a dmesg | grep eth0 : my card is on eth0. > > >If anyone could give me a direction or help me find the problem that would >be great. -- ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
