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After upgrading to 13.0 from 12.2 following the instructions in UPGRADE.txt, everything worked fine except the DHCP.
I ran netconfig again, and specify the DHCP server address, didn't work.
I modified /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, changing the time-out time to 30, didn't work.
Then I did a clean installation of slackware 13.0, still didn't work.
Then I ran netconfig again, and using static ip (the last ip I got from the dhcp server), it is working now.
But I still want the DHCP to work. Any hints? Thanks!
After upgrading to 13.0 from 12.2 following the instructions in UPGRADE.txt, everything worked fine except the DHCP.
I ran netconfig again, and specify the DHCP server address, didn't work.
I modified /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, changing the time-out time to 30, didn't work.
Then I did a clean installation of slackware 13.0, still didn't work.
Then I ran netconfig again, and using static ip (the last ip I got from the dhcp server), it is working now.
But I still want the DHCP to work. Any hints? Thanks!
I have the same problem. DHCP didn't work.
My rc.inet1.conf (create for command netconfig):
# Config information for eth0:
IPADDR[0]=""
NETMASK[0]=""
USE_DHCP[0]="yes"
DHCP_HOSTNAME[0]=""
Hmm. Interesting. I have a similar problem where DHCP fails to obtain an IP address. I thought it was probably the network I was trying to connect to that was causing problems (in 12.2 there were no problems... but who knows.)
I've tried wicd as well with similar timeout issues. I'm connecting with my wireless card (wlan0). The rc.inet1.conf file looks like this:
There's a known bug in dhcpcd-3.x that very few people ran across during hte -current cycle, but it was too late to consider an upgrade to dhcpcd-5.0.x. You might consider trying to build and install it instead, but probably it's easier to just try dhclient instead.
After upgrading to 13.0 from 12.2 following the instructions in UPGRADE.txt, everything worked fine except the DHCP.
I ran netconfig again, and specify the DHCP server address, didn't work.
I modified /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1, changing the time-out time to 30, didn't work.
Then I did a clean installation of slackware 13.0, still didn't work.
Then I ran netconfig again, and using static ip (the last ip I got from the dhcp server), it is working now.
But I still want the DHCP to work. Any hints? Thanks!
I had same problem on Slackware 13.0 (32 - bit), but after netconfig I select DHCP when it was suggested and then run dhclient, which version is 3.1.2p1. After this, ifconfig tell me that my eth0 has IP-adress (before that there was), but ping is not go - 60 % packages was lost, maybe it's problem of provider. Then I restart system (should note that all this do on VirtualBox) and FireFox download local sites, but with noticeable delay, but it work!
Sorry for my english - I from Ukraine, and my explaine - I new in Linux and network system.
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