[Voyage-linux] Having trouble with DHCP settings

[Arun Reddy]

I am given:

lo

Link encap:Local Loopback
LOOPBACK MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0....

Does this mean I need to add eth0 as a device?

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE <punkytse at punknix.com>
wrote:

> 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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