On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Graeme M. Thomson wrote:
> hi,
> i'm passing this query on from a friend, and it has had me stumped. sorry i
> don't have any of the logs or anything here ATM, but i can get my hands on
> them if anyone needs to see them
>
> duron 700,
> 256MB RAM
> rtl8139 network card (which works in my system fine)
Rrtl cards sometimes have problems when youre transferring large amounts
of data accross a network (stops responding) - but I doubt that's the
problem...
> the cable modem, in my setup anyway, works doing DHCP to the system it is
> connected to, however it will not respond to his redhat 7 system at all,
> the boot messages say that it has been unable to obtain an
> address. ifconfig does see the card and it has been set to use dhcp in
> linuxconf. it may be a problem with his dhcp client software, but I'm not
> too sure about reconfiguring redhat, been too long since i last used
> it. anyone have any ideas?
RH7 I dunno that much about apart from it got a lot of bad press. Have
you tried running the dhcp client by hand? Usually something along the
lines of :
dhclient -i eth0
And see what it says?
Billy.
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