the purpose of running the dhcp client is to obtain an ip address, not the other way around. it has to run continuously, for DHCP leases expire and so must be renewed.
Makes sense to me.
try
[dave] $ ps -e | grep dhclient
to see if it is running at all. the name may vary - it's dhclient on debian and redhat. you could try $ ps -e and wade through the output manually.
Well, its not dhclient, nor is it any of the variations I can think of and tried.
my gut instinct is that when SuSE looked at your Asante card, it said 'ok, i know how to use that', but your dhcp client is trying to use the built-in ethernet jacks. you may need to edit your startup configuration file ( /etc/init.d/networking) to change this. i'm thinking ps is even more of a friend...
[dave] $ ps -ef
will tell you what parameters (including which jack to use) were passed to dhclient when it was started.
Didn't find anything there I can relate back to DHCP client here.
then try
[root] # /sbin/ifconfig
(may need to log in as root) to see how many devices you get info on, and if the asante device is the same one that the DHCP client is trying to use. i get info on eth0 and lo on my system, but i don't use an ethernet card. i suspect you'll get eth0, eth1, and lo, and that the asante is eth1, and that dhclient is trying to use eth0 which isn't connected to anything.
Well, that was my assumption except now that I have tried using the onboard [eth0] also and that seems to work but fail [see my other reply] I am not sure just what is going on.
/sbin/ifconfig only reported back to me about the loopback [ie the only interface is reported was lo].
So it looks like my DHCP client is not running successfully on anything at the moment.
Next step?
David
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