Re: [RULE] RULE w/ RH 8.0 using 3Com 3c905CX-TXM

[Jason Roysdon]

From: Michael Fratoni <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [RULE] RULE w/ RH 8.0 using 3Com 3c905CX-TXM
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 19:39:38 -0500

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On Monday 24 February 2003 01:19 pm, Jason Roysdon wrote:
> A few weeks ago I installed using RULE Slinky 0.6.3 and RH 7.3.
> Everything just worked, including DHCP.
>
> Last week I installed again using RULE Slinky 0.6.3 and RH 8.0.  DHCP
> now doesn't work.  I know the DHCP servers are up and running and that
> there are addresses available (actually, we do static MAC->IP
> assignments).  If I manually set
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 it will initialize eth0 just
> fine:
> BOOTPROTO=none
> IPADDR=nnn.nnn.nnn.62
> NETMASK=255.255.255.128
> GATEWAY=nnn.nnn.nnn.23
>
> If it set to BOOTPROTO=dhcp and comment out the other lines I'll get
> "Determining IP information for eth0.... failed."

I hate to ask this, because it's my fault...
What's the output of 'rpm -q dhclient' ?

Looking through the packages lists, I don't see one for dhcp.
It would appear that I left it out, and you're the first to notice it.

Can you verify that dhclient is installed? It should be dhclient-3.0pl1-15
If it isn't installed, it's on the first CD, please install it and try
again.


- --
- -Michael

That was it:
$ rpm -q dhclient
package dhclient is not installed

I installed the original distro version and '/etc/rc.d/init.d/network 
restart' ran fine, and upgraded to the latest dhclient-3.0pl1-15.i386.rpm 
which also ran '/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart' without a problem.

One more thing to fix, while you are at it:  If they select DHCP client, 
don't prompt for a gateway ;-p

Otherwise, things seem great from command line.  I love using RULE for a 
quick install to test out something.  However, I can't get Gnome running 
with X, but I could care less as far as RULE is concerned (if I want X, I'll 
use the regular installer).  It seems there are a ton of Gnome dependancies 
not installed *shrug*

Jason Roysdon
http://jason.roysdon.net/






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