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Hi all, I am getting failure on initialization of the eth0 device when I connect my notebook(with RH 8.0) to my office network. I configured eth0 to use DHCP. When ...
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  1. 01-06-2003 #1
    steven_wck
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    eth0 could not initialize via DHCP

    Hi all,

    I am getting failure on initialization of the eth0 device when I connect my notebook(with RH 8.0) to my office network. I configured eth0 to use DHCP. When I dual-boot the same computer into Windows XP, there's no problem. Windows XP is also configured to use DHCP.

    Trying ifconfig eth0 returns a valid network adapter.

    I know this is pretty vague, but so far that's all the info I got. Just wondering if i have missed something... or there's anything more that I need to do to use DHCP.

    best rgds,

    steven.
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  2. 01-06-2003 #2
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    when you are booting the computer it shows eth0 timeout looking for an IP?

    check the log file /var/log/messages for any errors
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  3. 01-06-2003 #3
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    thanks majorwoo... don't know what happened. it seems to be working fine now.

    best rgds,

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