On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Chris Halls wrote: > > > Erm, actually I have the opposite experience: My 3com Megahertz 3CCFEM556BI > > does not work with pump, either the Potato or Woody versions. But dhclient > > works OK with the card. > > > > It's definitely Pump, not my machine configuration: I have a 3com 3c589c > > that works with both pump and dhclient. > I havn't followed this thread but this notice might help perhaps a little. > > After upgrading my perfectly working laptop (perfectly working = working > with DHCP in the institute and working with fixed IP at home) I had very > big problems. The lesser problem was that I had to type pump manually > now in the institute (DHCP). The big problem was, that my network was > unavailable at all at home. After several hours I found out that I have > to do > ifup lo eth0 > manually (and do this explicitely - ifup -a didn't work either). If > I did a /etc/init.d/networking start nothing happened, i.e. ifconfig > showed no output. This is really strange and I havn't any explanation > for this behaviour. Seems I have to do some research.
How about /etc/init.d/pcmcia restart? For me, I need to call that whenever I want it to get a new ip address via dhcp.
