Just installed SuSE v9.1 personal on my laptop. Laptop has SMC PCMCIA wireless NIC. Using SMC Barricade Wireless Router, and as DHCP server.

The NIC (eth1) gets an IP address, /etc/resolv.conf gets updated correctly, but the default route of 192.168.2.1 never gets added.

If I enter 'route add default gw 192.168.2.1' everything works just fine.

Couple of things I've noticed:

1. /var/log/localmessages indicates "dhcpcd[PID]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response" and "dhcpcd[PID]: terminating on signal 15"

2. When I look at /var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth1.info, I see the line GATEWAY=192.168.2.1, it's my understanding that this is the response from the DHCP server

3. ps -eaf | grep 'dhc' yields: /sbin/dhcpcd -D -N -t 999999 -B eth0

4. dmesg | grep 'eth1' shows a line that reads "no IPv6 routers present" which seems odd...do I need to dumb linux down to IPv4? I'm certain my SMC Barricade doesn't support IPv6.


I have an eth0 (internal "wired" NIC), but I don't have it plugged in.

I'd love some advice of other places to look for informaiton on this. I'm a bit of a newbie, I haven't used Linux since kernel 0.99! I'm a bit rusty.

I downloaded the ISC DHCP client, but haven't loaded it yet...I'm not ready to give up on this one yet!

Thanks in advance for your help/advice/direction.

Sully

if you are getting an ip address and everything else just not a default gateway
then i would conclude that the dhcpd server is not configured properly and is not setup for the gateway.
I would look at the config file for the dhcp server and make sure the line
option routers 192.168.2.1;
was in there.

Thanks for your advice. As I was watching the laptop boot up, I saw a line at the end of the DHCP 'stuff' that stated it was 'waiting on mandatory device' and it showed the MAC address of eth0 (internal NIC). I've been using eth1 (pcmcia wireless card). So, I removed eth0 from the configuration which caused the pcmcia card to become eth0. Now everything works great, I get a default route, IP address and DNS server!

Now I just have to figure out where to configure the dhcpd and do this the 'right' way.

Thanks again!