[TriLUG] dhclient with Debian not picking up address

[Lisa C. Boyd]

The same thing happened for me when I recompiled my kernel - 
unfortunately I went through this awhile back. Here are some things I 
highlighted in my notes that you may want to check:

make menuconfig
    Networking options - the following have to be checked for DHCP use
       Packet socket
       Packet socket: mmapped IO
       Socket Filtering

    Network device support - make sure you have the correct network card
       3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) Vortex/Boomerang suuport
       (this selection is for my network card - 3c905B)

I hope this helps or at least someone else might chime in once they get 
to work and wake up :)

Lisa B.

bdsmith at nc.rr.com wrote:
 > 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)?