[ltp] A20M dhcp

[Carsten Heyl]

Hi Brandon,

are you sure the eepro-Driver works correctly?
At work using SuSE 7.0 we had lots of trouble using the kernel
eepro100 driver.  So dhcp has problems, too.
Take a loog at /var/log/messages (or whare your syslog messages go)
and look for eepro100 related messages indicating problems.

After updating that driver from

    http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html

we had no more problems with dhcp.

Get:
    eepro100.c  kern_compat.h  pci-scan.c  pci-scan.h

Assuming you are using modules:

1. Compile the c files according to the comments at the end of the files.
2. Copy both .o files to the net-Directory of your modules directory.
3. Make an "depmod -a"

and the new driver will be available at next boot.

Brandon Walters wrote:

> 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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