Re: Need to make dhcpcd work

1999-03-17 Thread Steve Dunham
"rmathis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>   I have sucessfully installed debian sparc base from floppies and now 
> need to get dhcpcd working in order to finish the install. I have 
> installed the dhcpcd package recommended on the package list but it 
> fails to run even though there were no errors with the install. When I 
> run the command dhcpcd -d eth0 to run dhcpcd in the foregroud I get a 
> Bus Error and dhcpcd does not start. I do not believe it starts from 
> the init.d script either as it does not show in ps ax even though a 
> pid is in the file that dhcpcd creates whwn it starts and when you do 
> the command dhcpcd -k eth0 it says that there is no pid to kill. I am 
> required to run dhcp by my provider and this is a cable modem system. 
> My Solaris box works well with the modem. Any help with this would be 
> greatly appreciated.

Which kernel?

If you are using a 2.2.x kernel, you should be able to get dhcpcd-sv
from "potato" (or the dhcpcd-sv program in the "dhcpcd" package in
potato) to run.  

I'm not completely surprised that you're getting bus errors, I don't
think anybody has tested dhcpcd on the Sparc.  I have to make a bunch
of sparc specific patches to dhcpcd-sv to get it to run without bus
errors.  (Bus errors are caused by unaligned writes, they don't affect
intel machine.)


Steve
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


Need to make dhcpcd work

1999-03-17 Thread rmathis
Title: Need to make dhcpcd work




	I have sucessfully installed debian sparc base from floppies and
now need to get dhcpcd working in order to finish the install. I have
installed the dhcpcd package recommended on the package list but it
fails to run even though there were no errors with the install. When
I run the command dhcpcd -d eth0 to run dhcpcd in the foregroud I get
a Bus Error and dhcpcd does not start. I do not believe it starts
from the init.d script either as it does not show in ps ax even
though a pid is in the file that dhcpcd creates whwn it starts and
when you do the command dhcpcd -k eth0 it says that there is no pid
to kill. I am required to run dhcp by my provider and this is a cable
modem system. My Solaris box works well with the modem. Any help with
this would be greatly appreciated.




Ron Mathis
[EMAIL PROTECTED]