Sending DHCP requests .... timed out

[Michael Tautschnig]

[...]
> 
> Sorry by being a little bit of unstraight. The reason why my chip is
> detected as eth1 is I have 2 cards on my client for testing. When I
> pull the PCI-based card off my machine, the Marvell Yukon is exactly
> recognized as eth0. Even if I use just 1 that on-board Marvell, I
> still face with the same problem.
> 
What about setting fixed IPs in your kernel command line? You should then at
least get a bit further...

BTW.: Does this card only fail during FAI setup or did you never try a "normal"
setup using CD/DVD?

[...]
> 
> By the way ,I'll update to FAI 2.9 to fix some bugs. About updating to
> FAI 2.9, am I just download all deb package and run dpkg -i for each
> of that on my FAI 2.8.4 installed machine ? Or I have to do something
> different.
>
Thomas? I haven't tried that yet...

HTH,
Michael
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