[Leaf-user] Need help getting LEAF running

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I recently acquired cable internet service through AT&T @Home. I currently lease their SURFBoard SB3100 cable modem. My intended LEAF box is a Pentium 120MHz with 16MB RAM, 1.44 MB floppy, 1 DLink DFE530TX+ NIC, and 1 NetGear FA311 NIC. The BIOS is AMIBIOS 1.00.02.CB0. My internal, windows box has a NetGear FA311 NIC as well.   I started with Dachstein v1.0.2-1680. I uncommented pci-scan and added via-rhine (for the DLink NIC) and natsemi (for the NetGear NIC) in /etc/modules (I also tried the fa311 module without successful boot). The natsemi.o and via-rhine.o modules were added and backed up.   I modified network.conf as follows (everything else left at default setting): MAX_LOOP=2 HOSTNAME=BIER HOSTS0="eth1_IPADDR $HOSTNAME.attbi.com $HOSTNAME fw"   I backed up etc.   When I reboot two of the last messages to appear on the console are: No subnet declaration for eth1 (0.0.0.0). Please write a subnet declaration in your dhcpd.conf file for the network segment to which eth1 is attached.   I've seen some discussion in the archives regarding these messages, but there doesn't appear to be a consensus on the resolution. The Dachstein documentation implies that configuration will be automatic when connected to a DHCP server. Does that mean the subnet declaration in dhcpd.conf is OK? Or do I need to modify this file?   Other discussions center on whether or not the lease must be released prior to booting the LEAF box with the modem attached. I tried releasing the lease via winipcfg, and then connecting the modem to the LEAF box without any success. I also tried resetting the modem via power down (a couple hours) to clear the MAC address, without success. I also tried an archive suggestion to set the eth0 MAC address in network.conf to that of the NIC in the windows box, which was used to install the internet service. This also seemed to have little effect.   Several perhaps pertinent messages scroll by on the console during boot up too fast to read (is there a way to scroll back?).   I managed to catch the following messages on screen, but not in logs: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255:255:255:255 port 67 DHCPOFFER 12.242.19:34 DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255:255:255:255 port 67 DHCPACK 12:242:19.34   Does this look like a good handshake? winipcfg on the windows box shows that 12.242.19.34 is the ISPs DHCP server. Other pertinent info from winipcfg: MAC address: 00-02-E3-04-DA-61 (I tried to assign this number to eth0) IP address: 12.252.81.273 subnet mask: 255.255.248.0 Default Gateway: 12.252.80.1   Upon logging in to LEAF box I tried to ping 192.168.1.1. This resulted in 100% packet loss, but the NIC lights appeared to cycle at 1 Hz as someone in the archives has suggested.   I executed net start with the following result:   Starting Network:[IP Always Defrag: ENABLED]     IP Filters: firewall [IP forwarding: ENABLED]     Loopback interface: lo     Starting interface: Cannot find device eth1 SIOCGIFFLAGS: Operation not supported by device eth1     Hostname: BIER     Static NS: 2 hosts   It seems that regardless which slot the NICs are in or which order the module names are listed in /etc/modules, eth0 is always associated with the NetGear NIC. How do I force the use of the DLink NIC as eth0?   About the only things I have not tried are: 1. Attempting to boot LEAF box with only one NIC. 2. swapping the Windows NIC with one of the LEAF NICs   Can anyone suggest what I might try next to get this LEAF box operational? Any help will be appreciated.   Thanks, Mike