[PLUG] Debian Network Problem

[Jason Van Cleve]

Thank you, Mr. Chorman.  These are good clews indeed, though they seem
to indicate my debian distro' is not well assembled.  I really wanted to
try debian because of the praises sung for apt-get.  Little good that
does me, though, if I can't get online!  (Where's Karl Hegbloom when you
need him?)  And this is one of the prominent "net install" distros (the
LordSutch.com image), so I would expect it to make connecting a snap.  I
don't get it.  I hate to download all eight ISOs for the official release.

--Jason


On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:38:36 -0700
"Matt Chorman" <matt at legalizefreedom.org> wrote:

> I wish I could remember where I saw this, but I know dhclient needs to
> be rebuilt for the current kernel version. I know I had this problem
> once and it was solved by recompiling/reinstalling.
> 
> I googled a little too, and it seems like people who also have this
> problem and could not find a resolution switched over to dhcpcd and it
> worked..
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jason Van Cleve" <jason at vancleve.com>
> To: <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 3:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Debian Network Problem
> 
> 
> > On 12 Jun 2003 09:47:16 -0700
> > Derek Loree <drl at drloree.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Check the syslog, it will tell you if the dhcp-client was
> > > successful, or if there was an error.  If nothing is there, then
> > > your DHCP-client is not running.
> >
> > There is nothing in the syslog, but ps tells me that dhclient is
> > running.  Does anyone know anything about that client?  Like, does
> > it really suck, or something?  Its config file says that little or
> > no tweaking should be necessary.  (I tend to agree with that
> > statement, considering how preponderant the use of DHCP is.)  There
> > was a message somewhere explaining that dhcpd is no longer
> > recommended, but maybe that's poppycock, and I should try to get it
> > installed.
> >
> > By an arduous process I was able to get that etherconf package
> > installed, incidentally, which allowed me to reconfigure the network
> > via debconf. But it still doesn't work:  it tries for maybe fourty
> > seconds to get its IPs, then gives up without a word indicating its
> > failure.  I have a Win98 machine and a Linux From Scratch box which
> > have no trouble with DHCP, so I'm wondering why this woody distro is
> > being so mulish.
> >
> > Any clues?
> >
> > --Jason V. C.
> >
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