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DHCPCD

Whenever I run DHCPCD it will do this:

eth0:Setting Rx made to 0 addresses.
eth0:Setting Rx made to 1 addresses.

Then it will time out waiting for valid DHCP services. How can I fix this?

jlevie

Do you know for sure that your ethernet interface is working properly, with linux? If there's some resource conflict with the IRQ/IOport or speed negogiation problem you won't be able to get dhcpd to work. Check the interrupts by looking at /proc/interrupts & /proc/pci and see what IRQ and IO port linux is using for the card. BTW what card (make/model) is it?

Another clue as to what's going on can frequently be found by looking at the output of "ifconfig eth0". If you see a transmit packet counts, but no received packet counts, it usually means that there's an IRQ conflict.

AlexPierce

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jlevie,

Hi, I think you have hit it on the nose. I did ifconfig eth0 and here's what I got:

Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:4B:24:FC:48
BROADCAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300

As you can see, there are several transmits, but nothing being recieved, so I think your right about the IRQ conflict. I have a 3COM 509B ethernet card. If you could also, tell me your e-mail address.

Thank You,
Walter Waltz

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moheynow

testing, please disregard

jlevie

Well now that things are woring again, my email is jlevie@bellsouth.net