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DateWed, 25 Jun 2003 05:47:27 -0600 (CST)
FromThomas Molina <>
SubjectRe: Compaq Presario and 2.5.72
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Russell King wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 06:07:05AM -0600, Thomas Molina wrote:
> > The other problem was getting my pcmcia ethernet card up and operational.  
> > The change in the yenta module for the latest bk version of 72 allows it 
> > to be autoloaded by my RedHat 8.0 system as previously done.  However, 
> > there is another problem.  Although all the required modules get loaded -- 
> > pcmcia core, yenta socket, ds, crc32, tulip -- for some reason the dhcp 
> > client doesn't get brought up to acquire an address for the interface.  It 
> > may be a problem with the RedHat scripts since running the dhclient 
> > software manually does its magic.  It is a change in behaviour so I am 
> > reporting it here also.
> 
> Can you check whether 2.5.73 fixes it for you?  If not, please re-report
> the problem.

The problem persisits in the latest bk pull of 2.5.73.  All the modules 
get autoloaded, but, for some reason, the dhcp client doesn't get called.  
I apologize for not having a better report.  I will look into it as I have 
time.

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