Failing DHCP

[volvoguy]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 21:23:48 +0900, Jan Morén <jan.moren at lucs.lu.se> wrote:

> Sorry - I was a bit unclear. That error is at the start of the dhclient
> phase as well. sit0 is, as far as I know, just a pseudo-device acting as
> a bridge between ip4 and ip6.

I did not know that. :-)

> When you are getting messages about dhclient trying to contact the dhcp
> server, is it using eth0 or sit0? It is using eth0 for me, and I'm not
> entirely sure that what's supposed to be happening.

I get the same error message about sit0, but it successfully gets an
IP address for eth0. I brought my card up a little differently, but it
may just be a different name for the same thing. I used:

sudo ifconfig eth0 up

> In any case, the card does get an entry in ifconfig - but only with an
> ip6 address. No real ip4 address, and no routing entry.

Mine was doing the same thing initially. Unfortunately it was a late
night fix-it session, so I don't recall what I did to get it working.
The final fix consisted of these three steps:

modprobe bmac
ifconfig eth0 up
dhclient

Aaron