[TriLUG] dhclient with Debian not picking up address

[bdsmith at nc.rr.com]

I recently installed Debian 3.0, install went without a hitch, and dhclient picked up all the necessary information from the DHCP server. After recompiling the kernel, however, dhclient quit working (it runs, but fails to configure the ethernet interface, and gives me no error message). I made sure to compile DHCP support into the kernel (Networking options ---> TCP/IP networking ---> IP:kernel level autoconfiguration ---> IP: DHCP Support), but to no avail. I can manually configure the interface using ifconfig and route, and everything works fine. Is there something in the kernel I'm missing, does dhclient not work with the 2.4.20 kernel (the install program used the 2.2.20 kernel)? 

Thanks.