My ground-line mysteriously died on me again on Sunday. It's since been restored, but my DHCP problems hasn't gone away.
The problem machine is running Gentoo, using the latest version of dhcpcd. I've not tried booting with Knoppix, but I suppose that's a possibility. Perhaps pump will work better than dhcpcd. Lets hope that Knoppix's able to start KDE at all, what with the low RAM and slow processor, not to mention having to use a special boot floppy to enable CD-rom booting.
I don't have a DHCP server set up on any machines, so option number two isn't possible.
Swapping NIC's would be the last thing I would try, since hardware swapping means possibly having both machines down during the operation, however long it would take for a defenitive conclusion, and it's painful opening up my Linux box. (Although I suppose I should anyway for clean-up and maintenance)
I've installed Cygwin/X and Vim on my Windows2k machine, so at least I'm not restricted to doing assignments only from school. When I get the time, I will try my luck (however much of that I have, considering how the last month has gone) again.
PS: I just wanted to also say that I'm really, really impressed with Shaw's service. When my connection went down on Sunday, they were able to send a technician over the next morning, who confirmed that it was the same problem as the previous house call, just as I had suggested, and had someone else over to fix the landline again the same day, while I was at school. Bravo!
The problem machine is running Gentoo, using the latest version of dhcpcd. I've not tried booting with Knoppix, but I suppose that's a possibility. Perhaps pump will work better than dhcpcd. Lets hope that Knoppix's able to start KDE at all, what with the low RAM and slow processor, not to mention having to use a special boot floppy to enable CD-rom booting.
I don't have a DHCP server set up on any machines, so option number two isn't possible.
Swapping NIC's would be the last thing I would try, since hardware swapping means possibly having both machines down during the operation, however long it would take for a defenitive conclusion, and it's painful opening up my Linux box. (Although I suppose I should anyway for clean-up and maintenance)
I've installed Cygwin/X and Vim on my Windows2k machine, so at least I'm not restricted to doing assignments only from school. When I get the time, I will try my luck (however much of that I have, considering how the last month has gone) again.
PS: I just wanted to also say that I'm really, really impressed with Shaw's service. When my connection went down on Sunday, they were able to send a technician over the next morning, who confirmed that it was the same problem as the previous house call, just as I had suggested, and had someone else over to fix the landline again the same day, while I was at school. Bravo!