I am trying to get Slackware to connect to a DHCP server, I am running DHCPCD... In the files created by DHCPCD I can see that it finds an IP address.... If I run DHCPCD -d it even tells me the IP address.

However, when I run ifconfig, for eth0 interface it shows no IP address information. When I go to ping the DHCP server, it can't find it. DHCPCD runs without errors in the syslog.

I can assign the card a static IP address and it works fine; I am able to find the other machines on the network.

I'm using Slackware 8.0.

Thanks in advance for your help!

romanivice

have you tried configuring it using netconfig, and if so, does the same thing happen.. ??

If you bring the device up with an 'ifconfig eth0 up' and then run 'dhcpcd eth0', does it still have the same problem?

This is just a guess because if the eth entry doesn't exist at all in the routing table... dhcpcd will go through all the motions but not have done anything.

Cheers,

Finegan

I did use netconfig to originally set it up.

I tried a few other things:

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 up
dhcpcd eth0

That didn't fix the problem.

Then I tried this:

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig 10.0.3.11 eth0 (this works, I can ping other devices on network)
route

route showed me local and eth0, network 10.0.0.0

then I tried dhcpcd eth0

typed route again, eth0 was out of the routing table.

typed ifconfig, there was no ip address assigned.

If I go to the /etc/dhcpcd directory, it gives me all the correct dhcp info, so it really does talk to the dhcp server.

dhcpcd keeps running, gives no error messages.

Any other ideas? Should I try a newer kernel?

Thanks!

romanivice