If, in either mode, you can capture the output of /usr/sbin/tcpdump -n -i eth0 as root, that would help a lot. (tcpdump is in package tcpdump, if you don't have it installed already.) As for the file not found, does /etc/init.d/dhclient not exist? If not, try re-installing the dhcp-client package? -tara On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 12:01:54AM -0400, Rick Green wrote:
SuSE 8 overall has been one of the smoothest installs I've ever done, but I've got something strange happening with my laptop...
The basic install went well, and everything came up first try except for sound. (That's no surprise, I haven't been able to get sound going on this laptop under any distribution!)
The first time I plugged the laptop into a network, it negotiated an IP address and configured my PCMCIA ethernet card just fine. The next day, I was at a client site, and I could not re-negotiate an IP address until I ejected the card, deleted all files in /var/lib/dhcpcd/, and re-inserted the card. I thought it strange, because with SuSE 7.3, a simple 'cardctl eject 0;cardctl insert 0' was all that was necessary when changing sites. (I don't reboot, I just suspend/resume). That night, back at home, it accepted an IP address from my local dhcp server (another SuSE 8 system) without a problem. The next day, at the client site, it again refused to negotiate with the DHCP server running on a Win NT 4.0 server. This time, even erasing the dhcpcd cache entries did not help. I also tried it this evening on a friend's Linksys router/switch with no success.
I decided that maybe the new kernel-based PCMCIA support wasn't ready for prime time, so I changed the entry in /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia to 'external' and rebooted. Now, it refuses to even negotiate with my home network. But instead of a timeout message (..no IP address yet, backgrounding...), I'm getting a 'file not found' as its trying to execute `network start eth0`. The file (script?) in question is /etc/init.d/dhclient. I have installed both the dhcpcd and dhcp-client packages, as well as pcmcia. Can anyone suggest which package this missing script may be in? Or any other possible reason for this strange dhcp client behaviour?
-- Rick Green
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
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