Re: Problem upgrading from 7.0 RC2 to RC3 (ethernet)

["John D. Baker" <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 02 Sep 2015 21:06:24 +0200, Riccardo Mottola
<riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost> wrote:

> I boot and work through the menus until I need to configure the network.
> There I see the fxp0 interface, perform autoconfiguration. - dhcp never
> succeeds and I get a series of messages of CARRIER and NO CARRIER, until
> it eventually gives up with no address

>   - repeating the attempt several times doesn't help

I have seen this behavior with 'dhcpcd' and "fxp" interfaces all the
time.  One must use the "-K, --nolink" (ignore carrier messages)
command-line options or the "nolink" keyword in "dhcpcd.conf" to work
around it.

As suggested, a statically-assigned IP will work just fine.

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