Re: Thanks - and more questions:

David Woodhouse (Dave@imladris.demon.co.uk)
Sat, 23 May 1998 01:20:05 +0200


mike@dungeon.ne.mediaone.net said:
> I get a failed message. I thought I heard someplace that the devices
> get read in reverse order, so maybe DHCP is looking at the wrong card?
> Not sure. Would really like to know if someone has the answer here.

It's possible that they're being detected in reverse order. Look at the IO and
IRQ reported by ifconfig for each of them. I believe you can specify IO
addresses, if you really want to force the old ordering.

You might also need to tell the kernel that you want to be able to use DHCP.
ISTR you used to have to echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_bootp_client

That file's gone now, though, and I have no idea if you still need to change
something. Perhaps "ip_autoconfig"? Could someone else comment?

mike@dungeon.ne.mediaone.net said:
> Second Question: make menuconfig did not work for me. I saw someone
> else post that they had this same problem.

MEC had a patch for this, somewhere on ftp.shout.net
(/users/mec/experimental/trevor*?) Try that, or just use "make config".
Menuconfig's generally broken anyway. If you do use it, make sure you run
"make oldconfig" afterwards, to make sure everything gets set right.

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