Marvell 88E80856 switching from static to dhcp configuration all on its own

2008-07-17 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Hi All, I'm having a strange problem with a Marvell 88E8056 - 10/100/1000 Controller on a Biostar TA 770 A2+ motherboard. This is an Etch AMD64 install, but I have added the 2.6.25-amd64 kernel as I could not get the Marvell controller to work at all with the 2.6.18 kernel. Other than that

Re: Marvell 88E80856 switching from static to dhcp configuration all on its own

2008-07-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:14:25AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi All, I'm having a strange problem with a Marvell 88E8056 - 10/100/1000 Controller on a Biostar TA 770 A2+ motherboard. This is an Etch AMD64 install, but I have added the 2.6.25-amd64 kernel as I could not get the

Re: Marvell 88E80856 switching from static to dhcp configuration all on its own

2008-07-17 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:14:25AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi All, I'm having a strange problem with a Marvell 88E8056 - 10/100/1000 Controller on a Biostar TA 770 A2+ motherboard. This is an Etch AMD64 install, but I have added the 2.6.25-amd64

Re: Marvell 88E80856 switching from static to dhcp configuration all on its own

2008-07-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:36:43PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:14:25AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi All, I'm having a strange problem with a Marvell 88E8056 - 10/100/1000 Controller on a Biostar TA 770 A2+ motherboard.

Re: Marvell 88E80856 switching from static to dhcp configuration all on its own

2008-07-17 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:36:43PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:14:25AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi All, I'm having a strange problem with a Marvell 88E8056 - 10/100/1000

Re: Marvell 88E80856 switching from static to dhcp configuration all on its own

2008-07-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 02:30:42PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:36:43PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:14:25AM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: [...] I have two NICs. The

Re: Marvell 88E80856 switching from static to dhcp configuration all on its own

2008-07-17 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
The Friday 18 July 2008 00:24:04 Andrew Sackville-West, you wrote : On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 02:30:42PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:36:43PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at

Re: Marvell 88E80856 switching from static to dhcp configuration all on its own

2008-07-17 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Thomas Preud'homme wrote: The Friday 18 July 2008 00:24:04 Andrew Sackville-West, you wrote : On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 02:30:42PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 01:36:43PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Andrew

Re: Marvell 88E80856 switching from static to dhcp configuration all on its own

2008-07-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 06:53:25PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: ... These troubleshooting suggestions really don't help explain to me why dhclient would override the settings in /etc/network/interfaces for one NIC and not the other though. And why would it override manual settings?