dhcp not working on machine

[Aldo Foot]

On 8/22/07, PerAntonRønning <pa-ronn at online.no> wrote:
>
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> > Antonio Olivares wrote:
> >
> >> Rick,
> >>
> >> modprobe.conf is as follows
> >>
> >> [root at localhost Documents]# cat /etc/modprobe.conf
> >> alias eth0 8139too
> >> alias scsi_hostadapter pata_sis
> >> alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
> >> options snd-card-0 index=0
> >> options snd-intel8x0 index=0
> >>
> >>
> >> The machine hangs at gathering IP information. It does not move
> >>
> > any further. To achieve a connection on this machine, I disconnect
> > the ethernet cable and manually assign it an IP. What could be wrong
> > here?
> >
> >> While the device is disconnected booting goes on as normal.
> >>
> >>
> > I bet if you waited long enough, the machine would have finished
> > booting. It sounds like it is not getting a response from the DHCP
> > server. Can you look at the logs on the DHCP server? That should
> > give you an idea of what is going on. There may also be helpful
> > messages in /var/log/messages. Do a search for DHCP."
> >
> > Mikkel
> >
> I have experienced trouble of this sort earlier. It takes ages to bring
> up the eth card, and finally the operation fails.
> In some instances this has been due to the ISP, they had trouble
> generating IP addresses when the old ones had expired.
> In another instance it turned out that the network card was not properly
> connected in the PC.
> Apart from that it should be fairly easy to connect.
> Try to experiment a bit.
> Check the "network configuration" (this is KDE) - do you have the
> correct IP-addresses for DNS?  I had wrong adresses here once, and that
> caused problems.
>
> "If you don't succeed the first time mr. Kidd..
> try and try again, mr Wint"
> (Form James Bond - Diamonds are forever)


Just a thought:
I once had kickstart problems with dhcp in one of my systems because there
were two NICs in it.
There was the built in NIC and a PCI NIC and dhcp could not identify which
was eth0 and eth1.
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