Re: Getting cable internet to initialise correctly.....

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From: gdurbrid
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 01:08

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Are you trying to run dhcpcd before installing the module for your
ethernet card ?  Look in the dmesg output.

Matthew McKernan <mckernan@optushome.com.au> wrote:
> I have set up my NIC in Red Hat 7.0. That works fine. I am at a point where
> I can type the following and I get access:

> /sbin/dhcpcd -d -I coXXXXXX-a eth0

> Where coXXXXXXX-a is my login ID.  That all works fine. Where I have the
> problem is on bootup. During the boot though linux has a look at eth0 and
> then after about 30 seconds it comes up as failed. So it doesn't connect to
> the net at that point. In past linux set ups some how I managed to get it to
> connect at that point. Suggestions?

> As a temporary work around I just added the line above (/sbin/dhcpcd -d -I
> coXXXXXX-a eth0) to the end of rc.d and that seems to do the trick for now.
> I would prefer to have it set so that during boot when eht0 is checked it
> can connect then. Doing it that way would also reduce boot times a fair
> bit!!!


-- 
George Durbridge

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