On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:19:45AM -0600, Ronin wrote: > Before upgrading my kernel, my dhcp worked..as it should during the > installation... > However, after upgrading the kernel (currently using 2.4.24).. my pcmcia > nic was recognized during boot (NE2000 compatible) but it did not pick > up an IP address. The network adapter works because I can manually do > an ifconfig eth0 192.168.254.10 and it will assign that IP. I also have > to manually assign the gateway. I tried upgrading the dhcp-client by > doing an apt-get but it said I had the latest version. Any ideas?
Sounds like you didn't include the CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER
options when you were configuring the new kernel. They're under the
Networking Options heading in the config process, and I think they show
up as "packet socket" and "socket filtering". You want them both set to
Y.
Cheers!
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