marvell yukon network 88

I am installing FC4 on a friend's Toshiba Satellite laptop which has a
Marvell 88E8036 10/100 Base-TX Ethernet. I am using the Yukon GigE Linux
driver from Marvell's website. Everything seems to be working except for
name resolution. I can ping and connect to computers by ip address but
not by name. I can put in the names in /etc/hosts and then I can connect
by name.

I am using DHCP. This makes me think that there is some problem in
getting the DNS search path through DHCP.

Any suggestions on how to fix the problem?

-Nachiket.

Nachiket Gokhale wrote:
> I am installing FC4 on a friend's Toshiba Satellite laptop which has a
> Marvell 88E8036 10/100 Base-TX Ethernet. I am using the Yukon GigE Linux
> driver from Marvell's website. Everything seems to be working except for
> name resolution. I can ping and connect to computers by ip address but
> not by name. I can put in the names in /etc/hosts and then I can connect
> by name.
>
> I am using DHCP. This makes me think that there is some problem in
> getting the DNS search path through DHCP.
>
> Any suggestions on how to fix the problem?
>
> -Nachiket.
>

DHCP should be telling your laptop the name server IP addresses and they
should find their way to your /etc/resolv.conf file.

The information sent by your DHCP server will be in a file in
/var/lib/dhcp3 (or something like it). That will tell you if it has sent
name server IP addresses.

Your networking scripts should get them placed in /etc/resolv.conf

What part is broken?

Robert

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 21:52 +0000, Robert Harris wrote:
> Nachiket Gokhale wrote:
> > I am installing FC4 on a friend's Toshiba Satellite laptop which has a
> > Marvell 88E8036 10/100 Base-TX Ethernet. I am using the Yukon GigE Linux
> > driver from Marvell's website. Everything seems to be working except for
> > name resolution. I can ping and connect to computers by ip address but
> > not by name. I can put in the names in /etc/hosts and then I can connect
> > by name.
> >
> > I am using DHCP. This makes me think that there is some problem in
> > getting the DNS search path through DHCP.
> >
> > Any suggestions on how to fix the problem?
> >
> > -Nachiket.
> >
>
> DHCP should be telling your laptop the name server IP addresses and they
> should find their way to your /etc/resolv.conf file.
>
> The information sent by your DHCP server will be in a file in
> /var/lib/dhcp3 (or something like it). That will tell you if it has sent
> name server IP addresses.

Thanks for this. I will check this.


>
> Your networking scripts should get them placed in /etc/resolv.conf

I should have mentioned this. resolv.conf is blank. DHCP does not seem
to be putting the information in /etc/resolv.conf.

-Nachiket.



>
> What part is broken?
>
> Robert
>