DHCP IP address

Andrew yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:47:53 -0400


On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 07:16, Krischan wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 05:34:49 +0200 (CEST)
> Jean-Achille <jeanachille@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> > Andrew,
> > 
> > I did a ifconfig : It's okay, YDL recongnize my
> > ethernet Card.
> > I'm on dhcp, but when I try to activate this, I got a
> > error message :
> > I don't get a Ip address.
> > 
> > What is the problem, or where ???
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Jean-Achille.
> > French user of YDL, on PBG3 Wallstreet.
> > 
> > 
> Hello Jean-Achille,
> 
> could you be more specific, please. Did you use the gui toll "redhat-control-network"? If you haven't used it yet, try it out. It is easy to use and allows you to set up different networkung profiles (for a laptop). It works great for me!
> 
> Good luck
> 

I would call my ISP, too. And ask for instructions on how to setup your
DHCP connection on RedHat Linux (since YellowDog is based on RedHat they
must be quite similiar. Better odds they know about RedHat more than
YellowDog. If they can't, i'd switch ISP...

> KrisChan
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