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brucejustbruce

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Registered: 2011-07-10

Posts: 22

New Installation -- No DHCP

Greetings.

I've installed the base system and  core packages, and
it boots fine. Eth0 is configured.

But DHCP won't run. I"ve consulted the Begginner's Guide
and the Network  howto, and tried releasing eth0 and
running dhcpcd manually, but it doesn't work.

I checked all the basic networking files, and they seem
to be okay,  but /etc/rc.d/network is a bit over my head.

My ISP is clearwire.net and I'm wondering if some of the stuff
in /etc/dhcpcd.conf is incompatible with their server. I tried
renaming it and rebooting, but that didn't work either. 

Thanks for any help here.

Bruce

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: New Installation -- No DHCP

What exactly didn't work, what's the error. Can you post the output of 'ifconfig -a' or 'ip addr'?

brucejustbruce

Member

Registered: 2011-07-10

Posts: 22

Re: New Installation -- No DHCP

I'm not booted into Arch right now, Karol, but I ran ifconfig
while I was, and  loopback and eth0 are configured.  Eth0
does not have an IP address.

ps aux shows no dhcpcd running.       

I  ran  dhcpcd eth0 from the commandline, it timed
out trying to connect. 

Bruce

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: New Installation -- No DHCP

Unfortunately dhcpcd doesn't work everywhere. dhclient does work in places where dhcpcd doesn't. dhclient is in extra, so if you have a full install CD, then it's available. Otherwise, you'll need to download the package from another machine and install it. It requires iproute2 and perl, and both are in core.

brucejustbruce

Member

Registered: 2011-07-10

Posts: 22

Re: New Installation -- No DHCP

Unfortunately dhcpcd doesn't work everywhere. dhclient does work in places where dhcpcd doesn't. dhclient is in extra, so if you have a full install CD, then it's available. Otherwise, you'll need to download the package from another machine and install it. It requires iproute2 and perl, and both are in core.

Hey skottish.  Thanks for the advice. I think I could handle that, but
my interim distro, puppy linux, which I am using right now on the
same box as Arch, is connecting through eth0 to my ISP with
"root      4390  0.0  0.1   1880   532 ?        Ss   Jul16   0:00 dhcpcd -d -I  eth0".  And the same module is being loaded, so wouldn't you agree that dhcpcd should work, given this additional information?

Not  that I am averse to using the other utility you recommend, if
it's gonna be easier.  :-)

Bruce