laptop dhcp fails on severn

[Matheesha]

Thanks. I'll give it a shot at work.

M@

On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 00:43, Tino Meinen wrote:
> Matheesha,
> I tip I got from Ed Hill when I had network problems:
> Try this:  put the kudzu service off (redhat-config-services), and then
> reboot.
> See if that improves your networking
> (if your system isn't getting new IP information through DHCP, I guess
> it will keep the old config, so that could explain what you saw?)
> 
> see bug
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107389
> Tino
> 
> Op vr 24-10-2003, om 21:17 schreef Matheesha:
> > Sean,
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> 
> 
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