laptop dhcp fails on severn

[sean darcy]

Thanks for the reply.   don't see how it could be the NIC drivers ( not 
tulip ), since the cards work fine with a static address on the lan.

sean


>From: Matheesha <m.weerasinghe at ntlworld.com>
....................
>I've noticed the same problems on my laptop. My suspicions are on the
>cardbus NIC drivers (is it tulip ?). My dlink 680TXD was getting a lease
>on my home coyotelinux floppy NAT server. But it couldn't contact the
>NAT server nevermind the outside world! I was just trying to ping it and
>it wouldnt work. They are on the same subnet (obviously) and were
>connected through a cross over cable. I tried renewing the lease using
>dhclient with no joy. Didn't try doing a network restart and instead
>rebooted (Force of habit from windows. Bad habits die hard I guess).
>
>The laptop was then taken to work and used with the same results. I got
>a lease but couldn't do any network name resolutions. I swapped cards
>with a 3com 589 like you did and things were the same. Out of curiosity
>I checked redhat-config-network and the DNS tab was still showing my
>home ISP DNS server entries! I deleted these and I was then able to do
>name resolution.
>
>I am not sure if the DLink didn't work at work because it may have been
>still remembering the home ISP DNS servers.Incidentally the laptop had
>just been freshly installed with severn 0.95. I am not sure if there are
>any updates like the kernel updates which may be addressing these
>issues. I couldnt get the NIC working to update the kernel!
>
>I was too tired from working late the last few days to do more
>troubleshooting. Will do though if someone needs more information to
>troubleshoot this issue.
>
>Regards
>
>M@
>
>
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