On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 09:47 -0400, Garry T. Williams wrote: > On Monday 03 September 2007 09:21:40 john wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 08:54 -0400, Garry T. Williams wrote: > ... > > > > dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 > ... > > > The failure is happening in DHCP. The DHCP server (cable modem?) is > > The ethernet cable is attached to a Netgear Router/Gateway which > > attaches to a Cable Modem. The setup works find when using the install > > kernel 2.6.21-1.394.fc7 > > Maybe the Linux firewall is not allowing broadcasts? > > I would try disabling the firewall and, if that didn't do it, > configuring a static IP address just to see if networking can be > brought up. >> Disabled it and it still does not work > > By the way, I also use a Netgear firewall-router (FR114P in front of > DSL) and its DHCP service works fine on my machine with > 2.6.22.4-65.fc7 kernel. I never enabled the Linux firewall on this > machine. >> I have the Netgear 4-port 10/100 Mbps switch rp614 > > Is there some reason you took this discussion off the list? >> Not intentionally. I put it back on the list >
