Hi. I never could get that file to work. Everything I read said
/etc/network/interfaces should have the line
iface eth0 inet dhcp
but it never worked.
That is why I was glad
dhcpcd had a script in init.d.
Kenny
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 03:47:42PM +0100, Andor Demarteau wrote:
> hdcp-client should work good as well.
> wswe got a link up with that package within 10 minutes or so.
>
> Under debian you have a file call /etc/network/interfaces
> using
> iface <device> hdcp
> should do the trick, when called via ifup it should d the dhcp-request
> itself.
> As ifup is called during startup, that should do the trick.
>
>
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Kenny Hitt wrote:
>
> > Hi. I need to worn that I got my system working without help
> > from my cable company or knowing anything about DHCP. My cable
> > company panics when I mention "Linux."
> > Just like you, I couldn't figure out pump. I tried dhcp-client and
> > couldn't figure it out either. Finally, I installed dhcpcd.
> > It has a script in /etc/init.d and a config file in
> > /etc/dhcpc.
> > I just added the line
> > OPTIONS='-h cc771963-a'
> > to the end of config. The single quotes are important.
> > All my cable company wants is my system to use the computer name they
> > gave me (cc771963-a) as the hostname.
> > That's what the line in the config file does.
> > The host name is just for DHCP. My system's host name is still "learning."
> > I couldn't get the network configured with the /etc/network/interfaces
> > file, but since the dhcpcd script runs during boot, it gets configured
> > then.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> > Kenny
> >
> > On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 07:39:39PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> > > Hi, Kenny! No, I don't believe there's a shell script, and it doesn't
> > > appear that debian has put anything in explaining how to fit it in with
> > > their setup, though I could be overlooking. In fact, there isn't even a
> > > /etc/pump.conf though I certainly can create my own if I need to do so.
> > > There is a mention in the "interfaces" man page that you can use that file
> > > with pump, but then it goes on to say that some programs may be looking
> > > for a file other than the interfaces file anyway. I did look at using
> > > dhcp-client, but there was a lot in the dhclient.conf file that I wasn't
> > > sure about. For now it is working, but I eventually would like to get it
> > > better integrated into the system.
> > >
> > > Cheryl
> > >
> > >
> > >
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