Yes, the first test I make is if I can ping my gateway (by IP, not name) and 
that fails.  I know the server is up, and I know the cables are good.  It 
seems to be another issue.

Jay

On Monday 01 July 2002 11:13 am, Kent Schumacher wrote:
> I believe the DHCP client also sets up name resolution and default routes.
> Are these being set correctly when you are manually configuring things?
>
> Jay Kline wrote:
> > On Sunday 30 June 2002 11:03 am, ccox at linuxsnob.com wrote:
> > > well, I'm thinking that's might be an  honest bug.  have you had
> > > any other distros on that hardware?, or another nic you could configure
> > > to verify whether or not the problem is a part of the nic driver?
> >
> > Being a laptop, I dont have any other hardware to try.  Nor do I want to
> > just start installing whatever on it. It is a Xrocom 10/100 + Modem (from
> > Dell).
> >
> > >       I just had another thought, is that nic a pcmcia device?  if it
> > > is, you might need to do a restart of some of the pcmcia modules to get
> > > it to kick over.
> >
> > Hmm.. Interesting thought.  I will have to give that  a try next time. 
> > But I seem to remember having this same problem on a desktop pc at work
> > once.  I dont recall what the solution there was.
> >
> > >       I'm just shooting from the hip, I don't have 7.3 on anything as
> > > of yet. so if anyone else can shed some light on this, you might be
> > > more help than me at this point.
> >
> > Does anyone run a version of the ISC DHCP client on a network without a
> > DHCP server? (like a roaming laptop)  If there is a version that does
> > work, I may just track down that version and see if it makes a
> > difference.
> >
> > Jay
>
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