[Voyage-linux] Having trouble with DHCP settings

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

But how come you did not have eth0?  run ifconfig -a to see the net 
devices you have.

Regards,
Punky

Arun Reddy wrote:
> Hi Punky,
>
> The output of ifconfig eth0 gives: "error fetching interface 
> information: Device not found."
>
> The output of dhclient eth0 gives: "eth0 ERROR while getting interface 
> flags: No such device
> Bind socket to interface: No such device"
>
> I have read some posts on those leases. I tried editing the 
> /etc/dnsmasq.more.conf and made sure all the lines were uncommented. 
> And this configuration is called within /etc/dnsmasq.conf. 
> Unfortunately it still doesn't detect dhcp.
>
> Do you know what else I must do? Thanks.
>
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE 
> <punkytse at punknix.com <mailto:punkytse at punknix.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     Can you send the output of:
>     1. "ifconfig eth0"
>     2. then run with "dhclient eth0" to you can get DHCP lease?
>
>     Regards,
>     Punky
>
>     Arun Reddy wrote:
>     > Hi everyone. This is my first time using Voyage and I just finished
>     > getting through the live-cd installation. I need to set my network
>     > connections to use the package manager, but it won't seem to
>     accept my
>     > settings in /etc/network/interfaces:
>     >
>     > auto lo
>     > iface lo inet loopback
>     >
>     > auto eth0
>     > iface eth0 inet dhcp
>     >
>     > Does anyone happen to know what I must do to fix my dhcp settings?
>     > Thank you in advance.
>     >
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Punky

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