ok, well, just for the hell of it, i read a little on dhcpcd.. and then
logged in as root and typed 'dhcpcd -d eth0' -- and got my ip back. then
my net connection started working. anyway, i had to restart a few times to
some other stuff.. in fact, i had to his restart on my computer since
netscape ate up all my resources (i was using an old, sucky version of
netscape).. anyway, it continued to work and then suddenly stopped
working.. i got it to work again one time, but then when i restarted, it
stopped working. it seems to be going in and out. i remember reading
something about 3c90x cards on a 10mbit lan since they are automatically set
to 100mbit by the 3c90x module. i checked out /var/logs/syslog and found
this in the file:
Jan 29 00:40:07 papercut dhcpcd[840]: dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such
device
any ideas on what this means or what i could do?
thanks,
salman
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles A Edwards
Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 3:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] connecting to a DHCP LAN
If not aready you might want to chek out this site
http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
Following are my settings in netconf.
I did not set any of them manually. They were all done during the
installation process in
the Network Connection section.
Host name and network devices
Host name and domain..localhost.localdomain
Adapter1
enabled
Config mode.......DHCP
Netmask...........255.255.255.0
Net device........eth0
Kernel mode.......tulip
Name server
DNS required
IP #1.......192.168.0.1
Search #1...localdomain
That's it.
I know nothing about your card but if it is PCI you may want to # cat
proc/pci to verify that 7.2 is seeing it correctly.
Charles (-:
Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Salman H Butt
> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 2:40 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [newbie] connecting to a DHCP LAN
>
>
> Sure, send me how you have linuxconf set up. I could be using
> the wrong
> driver -- I've read up on that a bit, but the thing is I'm using the
> 2.2.17-23mdk, which (I believe) has the right driver for my
> NIC. In fact,
> under /lib/modules/2.2.17-23mdk/net I have a 3c90x.o file,
> and my card is a
> 3c905b. But the interesting thing is that in Basic Host
> Information, 3c90x
> isn't listed under kernel module (but 3c59x is, which I select).
>
> As far as the cheat goes, I'll see if I can fix it soon. I
> have net access
> in win2k, so I can do whatever I need to in there, but I'd
> like to start
> spending more time in linux.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Take care,
> Salman
>
