Re: dhcp not working on machine

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Antonio Olivares wrote:
>
>> Rick,
>>
>> modprobe.conf is as follows
>>
>> [root@localhost Documents]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
>> alias eth0 8139too
>> alias scsi_hostadapter pata_sis
>> alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
>> options snd-card-0 index=0
>> options snd-intel8x0 index=0
>>
>>
>> The machine hangs at gathering IP information. It does not move
>>
> any further. To achieve a connection on this machine, I disconnect
> the ethernet cable and manually assign it an IP. What could be wrong
> here?
>
>> While the device is disconnected booting goes on as normal.
>>
>>
> I bet if you waited long enough, the machine would have finished
> booting. It sounds like it is not getting a response from the DHCP
> server. Can you look at the logs on the DHCP server? That should
> give you an idea of what is going on. There may also be helpful
> messages in /var/log/messages. Do a search for DHCP."
>
> Mikkel
>
I have experienced trouble of this sort earlier. It takes ages to bring
up the eth card, and finally the operation fails.
In some instances this has been due to the ISP, they had trouble
generating IP addresses when the old ones had expired.
In another instance it turned out that the network card was not properly
connected in the PC.
Apart from that it should be fairly easy to connect.
Try to experiment a bit.
Check the "network configuration" (this is KDE) - do you have the
correct IP-addresses for DNS?  I had wrong adresses here once, and that
caused problems.

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