--- Tracy Nelson <tnelson158@attbi.com> wrote:
> > o Do you have any errors reported from dhcp in
> your
> > /var/log/messages file?
> 
> I do now!  I was playing with the 'media' option of
> ifconfig and set my
> interface to 10base2 and started getting "network is
> down" errors.  Now I
> have it set to AUI (weird, because it's a 10baseT
> connection, but the driver
> won't accept '10baseT' or 'UTP') and those errors
> have gone away.  It still
> doesn't work, though.  What I'm seeing is something
> like this:

That's ugly. Do you have another card to try?

> dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on 255.255.255.255 port 67
> interval 3
> dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on 255.255.255.255 port 67
> interval 7
> dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on 255.255.255.255 port 67
> interval 7
> dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on 255.255.255.255 port 67
> interval 9
> dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on 255.255.255.255 port 67
> interval 5
> dhclient: no DHCPOFFERS received.
> dhclient: no working leases in persistent database,
> sleeping

Looks like it's trying to grab DHCP info and can't get
it. Implies the interface isn't working right so far.
Maybe some DHCP wizards can interject, I don't use
DHCP often...

Andy

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