laptop dhcp fails on severn

[Tino Meinen]

Matheesha,
I tip I got from Ed Hill when I had network problems:
Try this:  put the kudzu service off (redhat-config-services), and then
reboot.
See if that improves your networking
(if your system isn't getting new IP information through DHCP, I guess
it will keep the old config, so that could explain what you saw?)

see bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107389
Tino

Op vr 24-10-2003, om 21:17 schreef Matheesha:
> Sean,
> 
> I've noticed the same problems on my laptop. My suspicions are on the
> cardbus NIC drivers (is it tulip ?). My dlink 680TXD was getting a lease
> on my home coyotelinux floppy NAT server. But it couldn't contact the
> NAT server nevermind the outside world! I was just trying to ping it and
> it wouldnt work. They are on the same subnet (obviously) and were
> connected through a cross over cable. I tried renewing the lease using
> dhclient with no joy. Didn't try doing a network restart and instead
> rebooted (Force of habit from windows. Bad habits die hard I guess). 
> 
> The laptop was then taken to work and used with the same results. I got
> a lease but couldn't do any network name resolutions. I swapped cards
> with a 3com 589 like you did and things were the same. Out of curiosity
> I checked redhat-config-network and the DNS tab was still showing my
> home ISP DNS server entries! I deleted these and I was then able to do
> name resolution.
> 
> I am not sure if the DLink didn't work at work because it may have been
> still remembering the home ISP DNS servers.Incidentally the laptop had
> just been freshly installed with severn 0.95. I am not sure if there are
> any updates like the kernel updates which may be addressing these
> issues. I couldnt get the NIC working to update the kernel!
> 
> I was too tired from working late the last few days to do more
> troubleshooting. Will do though if someone needs more information to
> troubleshoot this issue.