udhcp client not working

Denis Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Sat Feb 10 18:46:11 UTC 2007


On Friday 09 February 2007 17:56, satpal parmar wrote:
> Hi all;
> 
>    I am trying to make udchpc (UDHCP clinet from busybox) work on my kernel
> (linux 2.6.11.12, linux 2.6.18 and linux 2.6.19 ).
>  poted on arm9 board.I am getting following output
> 
> 
> / # udhcpc
> udhcpc (v1.2.0-svn) started
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:40:F4:39:6A:61
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
>           Interrupt:37
> 
> Sending discover...
> Sending discover...
> Sending discover...
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:40:F4:39:6A:61
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
>           Interrupt:37
> 
> NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
> eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1

This is a kernel message. Your network card is failing to send
packets.

Try assigning static ip address and pinging some other
machine on the network - does that work?
--
vda



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