Sending DHCP requests .... timed out

[Michael Tautschnig]

> On 12/28/05, Michael Tautschnig <michael.tautschnig at zt-consulting.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > >
> > > 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?
> 
> Yeah, exactly what you said. This card is also fail when I setup
> Debian system with CD/DVD, even when I tried the lastest Debian
> installer CD etch (using 2.6.12 kernel).
> I'll try to set ip to pure-address instead of DHCP and back to you later.
> 
But it does work on your install server!?

> 
> 
> > > 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...
> 
> I've tried it and somehow it pull out some errors of not being able to install