Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Jerry A! <jerry@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo installation problems
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 00:30:48
Message-Id: 20010712022956.A28635@gemini.thehutt.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo installation problems by Marcus A Martin
1 On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 02:02:24AM -0500, Marcus A Martin wrote:
2 : Jerry,
3 :
4 : I have a cable modem. My cable modem connects toa router. The router acts as
5 : a dhcp server for the local machines. If I bypass the router, I can can run
6 : dhcpcd from the command line and everything works great. If I attempt to run
7 : dhcpcd using the router as the dhcp server, it fails. Any ideas on how to
8 : work around this?
9 :
10 : I use a netgear RT314 router, if that helps.
11
12 What am I now, broadband king? 8)
13
14 All I can say is try debugging via dhcpcd with the instructions I
15 provided earlier.
16
17 See if manually configuring the interface work. If so, read the docs
18 and figure out what's going on with the DHCP setup on the router or call
19 tech support.
20
21 Sorry I can't be more help.
22
23 --Jerry
24
25 name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a
26 phone: 703.599.6023 || matter of life or death...
27 email: jerry@×××××××.org || ...It's much more important
28 || than that!