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From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com>
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On Tuesday 27 January 2004 09:48 am, Brian H wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I am trying to get dhclient to work on my laptop, but after a reboot there
> is an entry in the /var/db/dhclient.leases and ifconfig produces 0.0.0.0
> for inet.
> I took a look at /var/log/messages and there was nothing in there about
> dhclient or DHCP.
>
> any thoughts?
>
> thanks,
>
> brian
>
>
>
> rc.conf
> pccard_enable="YES"
> ifconfig_ep0="DHCP"
>
>
> ifconfig -a
> inet = 0.0.0.0

Have you checked to ensure that the pcmcia card has been detected properly?  
Have you tried configuring your card for DHCP using /stand/sysinstall.

Best of luck,

Andrew Gould