On Tuesday 12 February 2002 11:21, Henning, Brian wrote:
> 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.

Brian,
The results of "ip addr show" and "ip route show" would be helpful
here? What is the failure message in the dhclient request (in dmesg)?
The "How To Request Help FAQ" in the LEAF FAQ section is 
very helpful in getting us some good information to go from....

http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=1891&group_id=13751


This being said, some RR ISP's require a valid subnet gateway address 
before giving a lease (as does mine). I would enter your valid default 
gateway address for you ISP on the eth0 gateway line in
/etc/network.conf. You can then check your change with the commands:

        dhclient stop
        dhclient start
        svi network reload
        ip addr show
        ip route show   
        ping www.yahoo.com

Another smaller possibility is the system not liking your irq or io
settings. I've never had a problem with irq's 10 & 11 and io's 300 &
320. You did disable PnP and select "server" instead of DOS/OS2 
options right??? Good cards, but some setup is required.
I've covered this card @ http://www.geocities.com/guitarlynn/3c509.html

 I hope this helps!
-- 

~Lynn Avants
aka Guitarlynn

guitarlynn at users.sourceforge.net
http://leaf.sourceforge.net

If linux isn't the answer, you've probably got the wrong question!

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