From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 31 17:51:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3602716A4CE for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 17:51:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20024.mail.yahoo.com (web20024.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.225.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A30B43D3F for ; Mon, 31 May 2004 17:51:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kindredmnementh@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20040601005156.39465.qmail@web20024.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.10.48.6] by web20024.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 31 May 2004 17:51:56 PDT Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 17:51:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Don To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Jun 2004 00:51:57 -0000 Yes...what I did was completely delete the hostname line from my /etc/rc.conf and had my inconfig_sk0="DHCP" though this does seem somewhat problematic...every now and then I will boot up and it won't work...then I just reboot and all of a sudden it works *shrug* I fogured out what was wrong with starting X and you will probably have the same problem when you delete your hostname line from your rc.conf I googled it and found that a way to fix this problem isto simply delete the old .Xauthority file....I did that and now have my network and X back = D ....there may be (and probably is) a better way to accomplish this but this was just one way I found to get it to work...if someone has a better suggestion on how to do this I would be more than happy to hear about it = ) Thanks for all your help and good luck with getting your network to work at boot = ) Don --- hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com wrote: > Aloha Don > I am very happy I was able to help. > > One question for you before I answer yours. I still > have to kill dhclient and netstart after a reboot. > > Did you imply that after wiping out the hostname in > rc.conf you can reboot and your dhcp is up? > > Now for your question. I have not had any problems > starting x before or after. I was always redoing the > > /stand/sysinstall to get the dhcp up and then startx > > so that I had a network. Have you checked your > /etc/hosts for the correct hostname? When I did not > have that set properly, I had x complaining, but not > just > a grey screen. > > Good Luck > Robert > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/