From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 3 0:35:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc3.on.home.com (ha1.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32A3B14D2E for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 00:35:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from a.genkin@utoronto.ca) Received: from tea.thpoon.com ([24.114.152.71]) by mail.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.02 201-229-111-106) with ESMTP id <20000103083302.UKXK7552.mail.rdc3.on.home.com@tea.thpoon.com> for ; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 00:33:02 -0800 Received: from antipode by tea.thpoon.com with local (Exim 2.05 #1 (Debian)) id 1252xL-00010b-00; Mon, 3 Jan 2000 03:35:11 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: @Home DHCP Cable Modem Installation References: <000801bf55b8$1c1efec0$61b07018@wlfdle1.on.wave.home.com> X-Face: 0=A/O5-+sE[Tf%X>rYr?Y5LD4,:^'jaJ!4jC&UR*ZrrK2>^`g22Qeb]!:d;}2YJ|Hq"LHdF OX`jWX|AT-WVFQ(TPhFVak)0nt$aEdlOq=1~D,:\z5QlVOrZ2(H,mKg=Xr|'VlHA="r Organization: Wgaf From: Arcady Genkin Date: 03 Jan 2000 03:35:11 -0500 In-Reply-To: "Kavi Tanna"'s message of "Sun, 2 Jan 2000 23:02:40 -0500" Message-ID: <87bt73y2m8.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> Lines: 51 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Kavi Tanna" writes: > 1. (*) text/plain ( ) text/html > > My dhclient.conf file looks like this : > > #Defaults > > interface "de0" { > send host-name "cr..."; > } This should be like this: interface "ed1" { send dhcp-client-identifier "CR103675-A"; } It's the client-id that you want to send, not the host-name. (Make substitutions for your interface name, and your client number). > My rc.conf file has these important lines in it : > ifconfig_de0="DHCP" This is good. > hostname "cr..." This is not necessary. > when i type in : > # dhclient de0 > it says : > null not found > de0 not found > > what is wrong here? > someone told me to make sure rc.conf has a network_interfaces="de0 10," line That's "de0 lo0" (letter 'l' as opposed to number '1', and no comma). Also, you don't have to set your hostname to that ugly "crxxx..." thing. > i have no idea what to do. Are you sure that the NIC driver is loaded? What does "ifconfig -a" say? Is there any mention of the card in "dmesg" output? -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com "'What good is my pity? Is not the pity the cross upon which he who loves man is nailed?..'" (Zarathustra - F. Nietzsche) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message