[lug] DHCP Question

[Bill Thoen]

I take it back, Collins Richey; you were right the first time. 
Apparently, 5 minutes is not long enough to wait before cold-booting. I 
had the machine turned off last night and when I turned it on this 
morning, everything worked perfectly! This machine does indeed have the 
infamous nVidia chip set, and I don't know what "forcedeth" means, but 
eth0 is aliased to that in modprobe.conf.  Also I was using Windows XP 
just before I wiped it to be replaced with FC 5.

Who'd a thought that Windows could reach back from the grave and mess 
with a system?

Thanks for your kind help, everyone!
- Bill Thoen

Collins Richey wrote:

> On 8/23/06, Bill Thoen <bthoen at gisnet.com> wrote:
>
>> I've read about that in my Googling this afternoon, and tried 
>> shutting down
>> for 5 minutes, and powered up again. Same problem.
>>
>>
>
> Try booting a LiveCD like Knoppix. That might help.  I had to leave
> the box powered off overnight. Since then, I've had no need to boot
> WinXP.
>