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cignature

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Registered: 2011-05-10

Posts: 2

DHCPCD Carrier Lost error [SOLVED]

Hello,

When I try to grab an IP via the command "dhcpcd eth0"  I get the following readout.

dhcpcd: version 5.2.2 startting
dhcpcd: eth0: broadcasting for a lease
dhcpcd: eth0: carrier lost
dhcpcd: eth0: carrier acquired
dhcpcd: eth0: broadcasting for a lease
dhcpcd: eth0: carrier lost
dhcpcd: eth0: carrier acquired
dhcpcd: eth0: broadcasting for a lease
dhcpcd: eth0: carrier lost
dhcpcd: eth0: carrier acquired
dhcpcd: eth0: broadcasting for a lease
dhcpcd: eth0: carrier lost
dhcpcd: timed out

This is happening to me on a Lenovo S10-3t.  I've been on the Wiki page, (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Le … 3t#Network), it states I:

Have to load module broadcom then tg3 in /etc/rc.conf
MODULES=(broadcom tg3 ...)

After I had done that, I double checked lsmod, and they do appear in the list.

My rc.conf file reads as follows, (I trimmed out most of the comments to make it faster to read):

#LOCALIZATION
LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
TIMEZONE="America/Halifax"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

#HARDWARE
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
MODULES=(broadcom tg3)
USELVM="no"

#NETWORKING
HOSTNAME="S10-3t"
eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(eth0)
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)

#DAEMONS
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond)

I'm an Arch newbie, so please forgive me if I missed something obvious.

Last edited by cignature (2011-05-10 16:28:19)

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,772

Re: DHCPCD Carrier Lost error [SOLVED]

Lets start with a couple sanity checks:

Please don't take this in any bad way -- it has solved a lot of problems --   Is the cable plugged in ? Is it a good cable? Are the link lights on at the router and the computer NIC ?

Could you please post the output of ifconfig after you have loaded the modules ?

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cignature

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Registered: 2011-05-10

Posts: 2

Re: DHCPCD Carrier Lost error [SOLVED]

Just to be sure, I swapped the cable out... and it worked.

I can't believe I spent all day on this yesterday and didn't think of that. 
Thank you for your time.  In retrospect, this should have gone in Newbie Corner.