you see to have multiple adaptors its possible that they changed numbers between installation and the running system. (this tends to happen because modules are loaded in a different order)
> -----Original Message----- > From: Xeno Campanoli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 22 June 2005 01:07 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; debian-boot@lists.debian.org > Subject: New install doesn't see DHCP > > > I just tried a new Sarge install here at my job this time. Now > I'm having a > different problem. The installer seems to "execute?" dhcp > connections alright, > at least on the initial cd install (it for instance, gets the domain name > correct in the guess for that value, and ifconfig gives an ip address of > 172.24.134.214, and it sticks three nameserver ipaddrs in > resolv.conf, and I > can ping all of these), but when I reboot to engage in the > network installation > activity, and it gets to the dhcp section, it fails as follows: > > DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 > > and there are some ten of those with varying intervals until it > finally gives up > with: > > No DHCP OFFERS received > No working leases in persistent database > > Exiting. > > Failed to bring up eth1. > > and I end up with no network. Perhaps this is a simple problem, > but I'm not > seeing what it is. The net-dead system has the same resolver stuff, but > ifconfig doesn't show a normal ipv4 address (no ip address at all, just a > hw one). I can ifconfig the eth1, but it no longer sees anything outside. > This behavior is completely consistent, so it certainly makes me WANT to > blame it on the install, and not on the LAN here, but who knows. > Maybe the > install makes some assumptions about open security that the production > configuration does not. At any rate,...Help! Please of course. > > Sincerely, Xeno > xc > > -- > Pride before justice equals destabilization. > Power before truth equals destruction. > Profit before environment equals doom. > Xeno Campanoli, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.eskimo.com/~xeno > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
