[Voyage-linux] Having trouble with DHCP settings

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

You have no NIC or voyage kernel doesn't recognize it.  What nic do you 
have?

"lspci -v"

Regards,
Punky

Arun Reddy wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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>
>     <mailto: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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