laptop dhcp fails on severn

[sean darcy]

>For whatever it's worth, I have a FC-0.95 (Severn3) laptop, updated to
>current rawhide contents, on which PCMCIA NIC works fine w/DHCP. The NIC
>is a Xircom IIps (16-bit).

Well that's good news ( it can work ) and bad news ( I doing something 
stupid ).

I've tried it on two old laptops. One of the cards is also a Xircom IIps. Do 
you have two cards? I'm using this old laptop as a router, so one is 
connected to the cable modem, the other to the hub of the internal lan.

Here's how I've set up eth0  - which is a 3Com 589 ( which works fine on the 
lan with a static address ).

cat ifcfg-eth0

DEVICE=eth0
TYPE=Ethernet
IF_PORT=10baseT
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
NETMASK=
IPADDR=
HWADDR=00:60:97:8f:5d:d1
BOOTPROTO=dhcp

When I try to start it, I get:

./network start
Setting network parameters:                                [  OK  ]
Bringing up loopback interface:                            [  OK  ]
Bringing up interface eth0:
Determining IP information for eth0... failed.
                                                           [FAILED]
Bringing up interface eth1:                                [  OK  ]

/var/log/messages shows:

Oct 24 01:19:15 gateway sysctl: net.ipv4.ip_forward = 1
Oct 24 01:19:15 gateway sysctl: net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 0
Oct 24 01:19:15 gateway sysctl: kernel.sysrq = 0
Oct 24 01:19:15 gateway sysctl: kernel.core_uses_pid = 1
Oct 24 01:19:15 gateway network: Setting network parameters:  succeeded
Oct 24 01:19:15 gateway ifup: Cannot get driver information: Operation not 
supported
Oct 24 01:19:15 gateway kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Oct 24 01:19:16 gateway kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Oct 24 01:19:16 gateway network: Bringing up loopback interface:  succeeded
Oct 24 01:19:17 gateway ifup:
Oct 24 01:19:17 gateway ifup: Determining IP information for eth0...
Oct 24 01:19:21 gateway dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 
port 67 interval 6
Oct 24 01:19:27 gateway dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 
port 67 interval 9
Oct 24 01:19:36 gateway dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 
port 67 interval 18
Oct 24 01:19:54 gateway dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 
port 67 interval 8
Oct 24 01:20:02 gateway dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 
port 67 interval 9
Oct 24 01:20:11 gateway dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 
port 67 interval 11
Oct 24 01:20:22 gateway dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
Oct 24 01:20:22 gateway ifup:  failed.
Oct 24 01:20:22 gateway network: Bringing up interface eth0:  failed
Oct 24 01:20:22 gateway ifup: Cannot get driver information: Operation not 
supported
Oct 24 01:20:22 gateway kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Oct 24 01:20:25 gateway kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Oct 24 01:20:25 gateway network: Bringing up interface eth1:  succeeded

But ethereal shows DHCPOFFERS coming in!

What happens when you bring your card up?

I don't know what the  "ifup: Cannot get driver information: Operation not 
supported" message means, but it doesn't seem to bother eth1 coming up.

Also I don't know why ip_tables shows up. It's stopped:

ps -aux | grep table
root      2792  0.0  0.5  4704  656 pts/0    S    01:28   0:00 grep table


I'm fresh out of ideas, so I'd really appreciate any help

sean

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