Failing dhcp

[Theetjuh <theetjuh gmail com>]

Hi,


I finally got NetworkManager 0.5.0 builded, but dhcp doesn't work for me.

I'm getting the following messages in /var/log/messages:

Oct 19 21:42:34 poseidon dhcdbd: message_handler: message handler not found under /com/redhat/dhcp/eth0 for sub-path eth0.dbus.get.reason
Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhclient: Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhclient: All rights reserved.
Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhclient: For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhcdbd: Unrequested down ?:3

And this in /var/log/syslog:

Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhclient: Usage: dhclient [-1dqr] [-nw] [-p <port>] [-s server]
Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhclient:                 [-cf config-file] [-lf lease-file][-pf pid-file] [-e VAR=val]
Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhclient:                 [-sf script-file] [interface]Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhclient:
Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhclient: If you did not get this software from ftp.isc.org, please
Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhclient: get the latest from ftp.isc.org and install that before
Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhclient: requesting help.
Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhclient:
Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhclient: If you did get this software from ftp.isc.org and have not
Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhclient: yet read the README, please read it before requesting help.
Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhclient: If you intend to request help from the dhcp-server isc org
Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhclient: mailing list, please read the section on the README about
Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhclient: submitting bug reports and requests for help.Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhclient:
Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhclient: Please do not under any circumstances send requests for
Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhclient: help directly to the authors of this software - please
Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhclient: send them to the appropriate mailing list as described in
Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhclient: the README file.
Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhclient:
Oct 19 21:42:36 poseidon dhclient: exiting.
Oct 19 21:43:18 poseidon NetworkManager: <WARNING>^I  (): nm_spawn_process('/etc/rc.d/rc.howl restart'): could not spawn process. (Failed to execute child process "/etc/rc.d/rc.howl" (No such file or directory))
Oct 19 21:43:39 poseidon NetworkManager: compute_nameservers: assertion `config != NULL' failed

I search through the ML and found that out that dhcp needs to be patched for dhcdbd and dbus
I also had contact with Nico, who said he uses the
dhclient-3.0.2-22.FC4.i386.rpm , i downloaded the latest source rpm of
3.0.3 which is used default by slackware, but found 50+ patches !!!

Surely i don't need every single one, so the question ... which patches do i need for dhcp to start working ?

I'm running Slackware 10.2 with 2.6.13 kernel and dhcdbd 1.9

Thnx in advance

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Greetz
Theetjuh