[ltp] A20M dhcp

[Brandon Walters]

Hi,
   I installed Madrake 7.2 on my IBM A20m.  I have the correct driver 
(the eepro one) for the Intel PCI NIC and have dhcp selected in the 
setup (I followed the documentation).
    I received an error message on startup "cannot find dhcp
client".  I did some fishing around on the internet and found
that Mandrake came with pump.  I tried using this option in the network 
setup program, but the problem persisted.  After an exhaustive file 
search, I could not find the program 'pump'.  So I downloaded dhcpcd and 
installed it according to the instructions. I still get the same error 
message on start-up (I switched the settings back to dhcp instead of 
pump in linuxconf).
    The instructions say to start dhcpcd manually after startup, to go 
to its directory and type the command 'dhcpcd' or 'dhcpcd-eth0.exe'. 
Those files exist in the directory when I do an ls.  Now here comes the 
embarrassing inane part - no matter how many times I type either command 
to start dhcpcd, bash insists that the program doesn't exist (even 
though the 'X' permission is set on dhcpcd and dhcpcd-eth0.exe).
    I am a newbie to linux, but I have decent working knowledge of other 
Unix OS's like Solaris.  Any suggestions would be helpful.  I saw 
somewhere someone talking about Mandrake 8.0 - I suppose that I could 
download that and re-install it over my existing linux partition, but 
I'd rather see if I there is a better solution that someone can offer (I 
got linux so that I wouldn't have to solve every problem by installing a 
"new" version of the OS, like for Windows).
    Anyway, any help or points in the right direction would be greatly 
appreciated.

-Brandon


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