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