Hi Everyone At 09:40 24/03/02 +1100, Glenn McKechnie wrote: >Paul M. Wright, Jr. wrote: >[...] > > The card on the internal network works fine, but the card on the cable > > modem > > side just will not get a DHCP address. I receive a couple of console > > messages: > > > > ETH0: Receive set to 1 addresses > > ETH0: Receive set to 0 addresses > > ETH0: Receive set to 1 addresses > > Operation failed > > > > Then the boot continues but 'ifconfig -v eth0' show no IP address. > > > > Is there something peculiar about these cards and dhclient? > ><snip>...you'll need the config program 3c5x9cfg.exe , run under dos. >I've seen the file on leaf.sourceforge somewhere but a quick google >should find one --- that's if it *is* you're problem :-)
I've also used a few 3c509B NIC's and I really like them. But, adding to the advice already given to Paul, I have never got any of them to work without first setting them up in DOS with 3c5x9cfg.exe. This program, by the way, is distributed by 3com as part of their "Etherdisk 1" drivers/utilities floppy. According to 3com, this can be downloaded at http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/3c509/3c5096.1.htm, although I can't get that link to work at the moment. I had another thought. I still consider myself a bit of a newbie at this, but could the cable modem still have the old NIC's MAC address cached, and so be simply refusing to talk to the new card? For instance, with my cable provider (Telewest Blueyonder) I have to tell them if I attach a new NIC to the cable modem, either by using configuration control panel form type thing on their website or by phoning their tech support people. cheers Julian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ljchurch.co.uk _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
