Re: DHCP Problems with 3com 3c905C Tornado

Ingo T. Storm (it@computerbild.de)
Thu, 4 Jan 2001 14:11:00 +0100


> I recently installed a system with the 3c905C
>NIC on RedHat 6.2.

> The freshly installed RedHat 6.2 worked nice
>and flawlessly,

>However after upgrading
>to the 2.2.16 RedHat Kernel RPMS, the DHCP negotiation
>no longer worked!

>I downloaded 2.2.18 proper. I compiled in the support
>for the card, but also: same result.

Have you checked conf.modules that now is modules.conf?

In my case rh had just renamed/aliased the device and as soon as I had
adapted modules.conf accordingly, the card worked.

Of course, I might have completely misunderstood the problem, but it
sounds a lot like what I saw...

Cheers,

Ingo

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