I have a problem requesting dhcp from my laptop's wired ethernet card, a Broadcom integrated nic, using driver bcm4400.
In /etc/networking/interface I already have auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp and I use dhclient to get the ip. It just can't seem to get anything from the dhcp server, after a while it timed out, cannot lease anything and sleep (and there's nothing's wrong with the server as all my other computers can get an ip from it via dhcp fine). However if I set give it a static ip in /etc/networking/interface then everything is fine. Is there something in the kernel or software that I am missing ? And yes, this is a custom kernel but it has both CONFIG_PACKET and CONFIG_FILTER as suggested from others , all my other computers have custom kernel too with very similiar setups and they all work fine. What else could I do to check for problems ? If needed, I can put my kernel's .config here , just let me know , I really need this to work. TIA Also what pcmcia's ethernet card can I get that's cheap and fully linux compabile (just in case this prob is caused by the integrated nic)? doesn't see much talking about pcmcia's ethernet card, all the attention goes to wireless nowadays. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
