Re: NM ignoring DHCP server

[Rene Rask <rene grain dk>]

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 15:39 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Rene Rask wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 11:39 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > On Tue, 6 Sep 2005, Rene Rask wrote:
> > > > > The alternative here is to update to a newer NetworkManager, based on code 
> > > > > that's not 0.3x.  Later stuff uses dhclient which is more compatible with other 
> > > > > DHCP servers.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > My version number is NetworkManager-0.4-20.FC4.1
> > > > 
> > > > I'm not sure what to think about this. I'll take it into account next time I run into problems.
> > > > I can't update to a later NM without going for a FC5 development system, can I?
> > > 
> > > Ok, that's not quite right, because NetworkManager 0.4x doesn't have an internal 
> > > DHCP client.  The log message you're seeing _must_ come from NetworkManager 
> > > 0.3x.  You might have a mix between the older NetworkManager and a newer 
> > > applet?
> > > 
> > > What does "rpm -qa | grep NetworkManager" say?
> > > 
> > > Dan
> > 
> > 
> > rpm -qa | grep Network
> > NetworkManager-gnome-0.4-20.FC4.1
> > NetworkManager-0.4-20.FC4.1
> 
> Could you by chance:
> 
> rpm -e NetworkManager NetworkManager-gnome
> 
> and then:
> 
> yum install NetworkManager NetworkManager-gnome
> 
> just to make sure?  It sounds a lot like the version on your system actually is 
> 0.3x, even if RPM says it's not.
> 
> Thanks!
> Dan


I did:
[rene xrene ~]$ NetworkManagerInfo --version
Gnome NetworkManagerInfo 0.4

and downloaded the two packages from download.fedora.redhat.com (I
haven't got net access when I don't have NM installed), rpm -e
NetworkManager NetworkManager-gnome
and installed the newly downloaded packages.

I've moved up and down between versions a number of times and tried my
on compiles as well. That hasn't changed the problems. I'll se how it
works out at work tomorrow.

Cheers
Rene