On Mon, 29 May 2000, Charles Baker wrote: > > Can someone point me to a good tutorial or howto about Debian's methods > of booting and starting networking? > if you go to http://www.debian.org/doc/ddp this place is a good start for debian documentation. At the bottom I noticed documentation for Network administrators.
> I reinstalled Potato on my > laptop. During the install I couldn't dhcp, so I had to borrow and set > a static IP. I want to be certain that the machine is now doing dhcp, > plus it would be good just to know about these subjects anyway. If > anyone has a test for dhcp that I can carry out please send that, too. > well the only test I know of is to plug it in and see if it works! Just make sure its not using the same IP number each time, see if you can ping something and that would be a successfult test in my book. If the same IP address is being assigned make sure it isn't actually the static address you were using. Also you will have to set up the DNS server's by hand as I'm not sure how to get dhcpcd to set the DNS servers automagically, or is this a case of RTFM? ;) HOWEVER......sometimes I find that my laptop doesn't talk to the dhcpc server until after a reset. This could be solved probably by restarting some network services (and yes I've tried /etc/init.d/(pcmcia\networking\dhcpcd\xinet) and all have failed) however I have found only the reset works properly. When I upgraded to potato I noticed my dhcpcd didn't work either until I used a static IP to remove the client and then reinstall it. I think this is related to the old dhcpc deamon breaking on the 2.2.x kernel. Alex -- ** ((__)) Alexander "Jim diGriz" "Hubenko" Clouter \\ ((oo)) \\------\\// e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] || || |||----||| ~~~ ~~~ equip : 300Mhz Celeron Laptop running Cow during an Debian Woody Linux Earthquake
