[TriLUG] dhclient with Debian not picking up address

[BS]

>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 :)

That did it, thanks! Saved me a lot of future headache.

>You do not need "kernel level autoconfiguration" to use DHCP.

Whoops, I should have read the description of the option more carefully, 
thanks as well.