dhclient in 6.0

[doug]

I had the same problem. Mine was with a wireless card, so my exact fix is 
probably not yours but this may point the way. I had to load a driver not 
autoloaded in 6.0 (wlan_wep.ko) and add an extra parm to the ifconfig:

    old: ifconfig wi0  wep wepkey <key string>
    new: ifconfig wi0 wep wepkey <key string> deftxkey 1

>From reading of the ifconfig man page I thought that was the default. Many 
thanks to Robert Watson for the right answer. I did not have a dhclient.conf in 
5.3 or 6.0.

In general - it may not be dhclient, you may need an addition module or some 
additional setting on the ifconfig for your card. In my case I think I got an 
error about the missing module. I hope this helps.


DougD

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, make stuff up wrote:

>
>  hi all..
>
>  this is new - just installed 6 and here:
>  # dhclient fxp0
>  DHCPDISCOVER on fxp0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
>  DHCPDISCOVER on fxp0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> ..............................................................................................
> and a few other intervals...
>
>  so if the fxp0 is up and the dhcp server is up then whats wrong with
> dhclient?...
>  i'm actually writing from a machine on the same dhcp server...
>
>  thanks...
>
>
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