[linux-help] Re: Network help

[Steven Saner <ssaner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Are you sure that there is a DHCP server running someplace on the
network that you are trying to connect the laptop to? Does that
DHCP server have any logs, and do they show any DHCPREQUEST messages
comming from you?


On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 07:56:57AM -0500, Wayne White wrote:
> 
> I have Mandrake 8.0 running on an HP laptop. I built and installed
> the drivers for an Orinoco wireless PCMCIA card and it seems to
> be working correctly. I had to install pump, because there was no
> dhcp client installed with the distro.
> 
> Last night I tried to connect to the network at Friends without success.
> Upon issuing the command ifup eth0, the lights on the card flashed,
> the command line returned the message that the IP information
> was being determined and all seemed right with the world.
> 
> No, it wasn't. The attempt to get an IP failed. I am guessing that the
> net work is NT based. Is there something I'm missing that is keeping
> me from joining the network.
> 
> Once I become a node, I'll work on figuring out how to log onto the
> network to access things there. I'm guessing that the Samba client
> will be needed for that, but I think it is already installed. Any ideas
> on this would also be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> wayne
> 
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