The 02.10.08 at 21:29, Alain Barthélemy wrote: [... skipping]
IThere seems to be negotiation with DHCP server but difficult to understand I used dhcpcd and even tried a longer timeout with #> dhcpcd -t 120 Difficult for me to understand the /var/log/messages but one DHCP server 192.168.0.173 seems to be well detected and connection is made. Why don't I get a dynamic address? DHCP server seems not to acknowledge (waiting for DHCP_ACK).
Does anybody have more experience of DHCP server and client than I?
No, but I see a problem on your logs. Look:
Oct 8 11:28:45 portable3 dhcpcd[2939]: terminating on signal 2 Oct 8 11:28:45 portable3 dhcpcd[2919]: recvfrom: Network is down Oct 8 11:28:45 portable3 dhcpcd[2919]: sendto: Network is down Oct 8 11:28:45 portable3 modify_resolvconf: no matching backup found, left everything alone Oct 8 11:28:45 portable3 modify_resolvconf: no matching backup found, left everything alone Oct 8 11:30:01 portable3 kernel: eth0: autonegotiation failed; using 10mbs Oct 8 11:30:01 portable3 kernel: eth0: MII selected
The card was negotiating the connection speed at the same time the dhcpcd daemon was doing its part: that can not work, the network is down. Check whether during boot up the network script runs before the dhcpcd script: just have a look at the /var/log/boot.msg file if unsure.
One of the error messages I get is "no device available/detected to start dhcp client on" Which device?
eth0 -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson