I believe the DHCP client also sets up name resolution and default routes. Are these being set correctly when you are manually configuring things? Jay Kline wrote: > > On Sunday 30 June 2002 11:03 am, ccox at linuxsnob.com wrote: > > well, I'm thinking that's might be an honest bug. have you had > > any other distros on that hardware?, or another nic you could configure to > > verify whether or not the problem is a part of the nic driver? > > Being a laptop, I dont have any other hardware to try. Nor do I want to just > start installing whatever on it. It is a Xrocom 10/100 + Modem (from Dell). > > > I just had another thought, is that nic a pcmcia device? if it > > is, you might need to do a restart of some of the pcmcia modules to get it > > to kick over. > > Hmm.. Interesting thought. I will have to give that a try next time. But I > seem to remember having this same problem on a desktop pc at work once. I > dont recall what the solution there was. > > > I'm just shooting from the hip, I don't have 7.3 on anything as of > > yet. so if anyone else can shed some light on this, you might be more help > > than me at this point. > > > > Does anyone run a version of the ISC DHCP client on a network without a DHCP > server? (like a roaming laptop) If there is a version that does work, I may > just track down that version and see if it makes a difference. > > Jay