When i experienced that symptom (timeout), it was because my ISP required that
i pass a hostname with the request: "dhcpcd -h cr843732-a" was the thing it
needed. To make that an automatic phenomenon during bootup, make sure to
include the following in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (for eth0):
NEED_HOSTNAME=1
DHCP_HOSTNAME=cr843732-a
So check that out, it might be it.
j
--- Geoff Low <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am connected via a University network. I have an allocated ip address
> (via dhcp). When I installed Mandrake 8.0, I firstly got the error about
> eth0 not existing (rtl8139 vs 8139too) which I worked out myself. So the
> error no longer occurs on boot.
>
> However, I still cannot connect and get an ip address (or anything for that
> matter). The module loads ok, but then the dhcpcd times out.
>
> Does anybody know how to fix this?
> Cheers
> Geoff
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