Description of problem: DHCP doesn't want to work on my Dell Dimension 2400C which apparently has a bcm4401 net chip in it. Static IP works fine funnily enough. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl dhclient-3.0pl2-6.16 How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Do NFS install of recent FC tree into Dell Dimension 2. Choose DHCP net configuration. Actual results: Net card continually goes up and down like a yoyo. Expected results: Should grab configuration from dhcp server right away as normal. Additional info: (DHCP is working fine here on my Dell PowerEdge and IBM Thinkpad.)
It does sometimes work if one is persistent in trying to get it to come up: eg repeatedly running "ifup eth0".
Actually the DHCP thing is probably a red herring, it is clear from repeated attempts with the installer that the interface doesn't come up reliably with static ip either at all. On my switch I see the interface going up and down, up and down repeatedly, until finally when it occasionally works it stays up for good.
Does ifdown+ifup or unplug+replug bring up the interface?
*** Bug 112532 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
It seem to be working somewhat more consistently now, though I still see: # ifdown eth0 # ifup eth0 Determining IP information for eth0...[pause]b44: eth0: transmit timed out, resetting[pause] done. #
As possible data point, when I just sftp'd the latest openoffice rpms from a local machine, I didn't get more than 3.7MB/s (2GHz celeron box), whereas my old 1GHz PIII router managed 8.3MB/s.
Note that Bug #118165 is probably causing trouble for this in recent FC2 development kernels.
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DHCP setup is still very slow on this card.
b44 is working very reliably for me w/ FC3 kernel...
dhcp configuration is still very slow for me with FC3 and RHEL4 kernels.