Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help??

[hoe-waa at hawaii.rr.com]

Aloha Don
I am very happy I was able to help. 

One question for you before I answer yours. I still 
have to kill dhclient and netstart after a reboot.

Did you imply that after wiping out the hostname in 
rc.conf you can reboot and your dhcp is up?

Now for your question. I have not had any problems starting x before or after. I was always redoing the 
/stand/sysinstall to get the dhcp up and then startx 
so that I had a network. Have you checked your /etc/hosts for the correct hostname? When I did not 
have that set properly, I had x complaining, but not just
a grey screen.

Good Luck
Robert

----- Original Message -----
From: Don <kindredmnementh at yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, May 31, 2004 11:52 am
Subject: Re: Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help??

> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> --- hoe-waa at hawaii.rr.com wrote:
> > Aloha
> > This sounds a whole lot like my DHCP problem. It was
> > being 
> > discussed on this list earlier last week. I have
> > attached my thread for your perusal.
> > 
> > I have the same ethernet card as you. There is a 
> > workaround in the attachment that I am using (I also
> > created a script to do it) but if someone comes up 
> > with a real fix it would be muck better.
> > 
> > Read through my attachment and see if you think we 
> > have the same problem.
> > 
> > Robert
> > 
> Thanks for the help....I killed any open dhclients and
> then did the netstart....it still wasn't working until
> I took a peek at my rc.conf and deleted the hostname
> line and made sure ifconfig_sk0="DHCP" and the appends
> were deleted...I then rebooted and viola!!! it
> works!!!!
> 
> HOWEVER lol I now can't seem to get into X....It
> worked before I got my NIC working correctly and now
> when I startx it gets to the dark grey sceen where the
> pointer looks like an "X" and sits there. I'll play
> around with it some when I get back from my folks
> house but did you have that problem after you got your
> NIC working? 
> 
> Thanks again for ppinting me to your earlier
> conversation. It was a tremendous help
> 
> Don
> 
> 
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