Dhcpcd problem [SOLVED]

chao06 · 2010-03-29 08:06:58

in installation, when I setup the network, select eth0 (the only network device I have), and go to setup DHCP, it returns a message:

Dhcpcd problem
DHCP request failed. dhcpcd returned 0 but no ip configured for eth0

I don't know what that means...
When I press alt+f7, it doesn't seem to indicate anything having gone wrong

dhcpcd: version 5.0.6 starting
dhcpcd: eth0: broadcasting for a lease
dhcpcd: eth0: offered 192.168.1.101 from 192.168.1.1 ' '
dhcpcd: eth0: acknowledged 192.168.1.101 from 192.168.1.1 ' '
dhcpcd: eth0: checking for 192.168.1.101
dhcpcd: eth0: leased 192.168.1.101 for 7200 seconds
dhcpcd: eth0: MTU set to 576
dhcpcd: forking to background

My network card is and Intel 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller

Any insight would be helpful
Thanks,
David

SOLUTION
Ber provided the link:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88985
Which gave the solution, basically use dhclient instead of dhcpcd (initialize it before install and skip "Setup Network" in install)

Last edited by chao06 (2010-03-30 22:29:57)

chao06 · 2010-03-30 10:51:31

bump... anyone?

Ber · 2010-03-30 10:58:55

Returning 0 usually means (on linux) that the operation encountered no error. But as you didn't receive an IP address, I'dsay something went wrong outside of dhcpcd. Did you test your router?

chao06 · 2010-03-30 11:08:12

how would I do that?
I've had no network problems with any other OS on that box or any network problems on any other computer w/ any OS including Arch... all through the same router

Last edited by chao06 (2010-03-30 11:09:34)

Ber · 2010-03-30 11:25:38

Then I guess we can say it's functional...

What does "ifconfig" return to you (ie does it confirm that no ip address was assigned to eth0)?

chao06 · 2010-03-30 11:43:49

yeah, no ip for eth0 after starting dhcpcd...

Ber · 2010-03-30 11:57:07

Can you assign the ip address manually? It has been leased to you anyway...

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.101 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

(netmask might be different if you have an uncommon network configuration, but I guess you know it then)

Ber · 2010-03-30 12:15:32

Have you seen that : http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=88985?

Ultraman · 2010-03-30 13:21:48

That's also an odd MTU. What are you connecting to?
Normal Ethernet MTU would be 1500.

chao06 · 2010-03-30 22:25:09

Thanks, Ber, the link you provided gave the solution... I didn't know about dhclient previously, it worked without a hitch : )

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Dhcpcd problem [SOLVED]

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