Hate to say it, but even Red Hat is having trouble with DHCP and PCMCIA 

Forum: PCMCIA Network Adapter Issues
Re: Question: DHCP with PCMCIA (Christopher Keller)
Re: Not sure if this is Caldera specific (David Hinds)
Date: 2000, Jan 17
From: Nathan Hartwell MageX

I just switched out my generic PCMCIA 10/100 card for a D-Link DFE-650TX card (something on the supported list). As it would turn out, I -still- can't get dhcpcd or pump to grab an IP. At least with pump, I see the messages where it gets an offer, but the offer is never accepted for one reason or another. With dhcpcd, it just seems to sit there like a bump on a log then finally times out. I had these same troubles with the previous card which is why I switched to this D-Link. I even went so far as to re-extract the pcmcia-cs v3.1.6 package and recompile (plus a fresh copy of 8390.c and 8390.h). I have not yet forced a specific IP as I am not wanting to have it set up this way to begin with. I am certain that the card will work fine once I manually set it's IP, however. Any help will be appreciated.

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Don't be so sure! Re: Hate to say it, but even Red Hat is having trouble with DHCP and PCMCIA (Nathan Hartwell) Date: 2000, Jan 17 From: David Hinds <dhinds@pcmcia.sourceforge.org>

> I have not yet forced a specific IP as > I am not wanting to have it set up this way to begin with. I am certain > that the card will work fine once I manually set it's IP, however. There is no reason whatsoever for you to be certain of this fact, and you should absolutely test it, because it is the only way to determine for sure if you are suffering from a driver problem, versus suffering from some issue with your DHCP configuration. Just do it. -- Dave

quite right....it wasn't a PCMCIA issue, but a DHCP issue Re: Don't be so sure! (David Hinds) Date: 2000, Jan 19 From: Nathan Hartwell MageX

as it turns out, the DHCP server within the Netgear RT328 does not respond properly for dhcpcd or pump to latch on to the offer, yet Win9x will. however, I run dhcpd on my home Linux server and pump grabs the ip info just fine (though I am manually running it with this setup, defined for work and manually run pump after logging in at home) I plan to configure the Linux server at work (as I'm the primary admin anyway) to run dhcpd. I hope to have a worry free setup after that's done.

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