DHCP

[Tyson Oswald <tysono@xxxxxxxxx>]

    A week or so ago I installed Red Hat 6.0 on my Dell Notebook.
Overall it runs pretty well.  At home where I installed it, I wired it
up to my NT 4.0 server running a DHCP server.  Linux with PCMCIA noticed
and loaded drivers for my 3Com 10/100 PCM card and also my Kingston
NE2000 PCM card (not at the same time).  After initializing either card
it retrieved an address from my Server and I was off.

    Although, at work with IntraNetware 4.11  Linux has no problem
installing the driver for an IBM Token ring PCM card, but is unable to
get an IP address from the DHCP server which messes everything up.  This
is because  I have graphical login turned on and to get from when Linux
has completed loading to the login screen  it takes about 5 minutes,
then I log in and it looks for an address again, which takes about 2
minutes before it times out.  Then I press continue and after about 5
minutes I'm at my desktop.  This scenario is the same if I'm on the TR
network or the Ethernet network at the office.  What my question is ,
after all this explanation, is why can't it find the DHCP server.  I
have put the address of it in the DNS configuration, which is also
running the DHCP server, with no luck.  What am I missing?


oh, I'm Using Gnome as my Window Manager

Thanks for your help.

Tyson Oswald