Can't receive Dynamic IP address in FC2 with dhclient

neolith_god · 05-31-2004, 12:50 PM

I cannot connect to the internet (or any dynamic network for that matter) with FC2. I just installed FC2 after running RH9 for about a year. I never had a lick of trouble with RH9 - Just plug it in before boot time or run "ifup eth0" and/or dhclient "eth0" and presto - I was golden. Now it won't get IP address. Same machine - ethernet card appears to be supported in FC2. All it does is so the DCHPREQUEST on 11 255.255.255.255 blah... blah... but won't ever connect. It makes mention of a file: dhclient.conf that SHOULD contain config for the eth0 device but that file doesn't exist anywhere... where should it be? I would assume /etc/dhclient.conf but I don't know. It's the same game for my Wifi card...

I tried turning off iptables... that didn't help. It's like it won't accept incoming DHCP or something. GRRRR. Any help would be great! Thank in advance.
-Kyle

BittaBrotha · 05-31-2004, 09:17 PM

What nic card are you using? I'm having the same problems with 3com (3c59x). But it seems to be a workaround for it.

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Following someone else's instructions, I was able to get the card to work on Fedora Core 2 by inserting this line at the top of /etc/rc.sysinit:

insmod /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.ko

It gives an error message on bootup, something to the effect of "file exists", but the card works afterwards.

It did seem to show the nic ip address, when before I didn't get the ip numbers for the nic, using ifconfig -a command.

But I'm still not able to connect to the internet when trying to ping a website.