DHCP problems

["Radha Krishna Pagadala" <p radha_krishna mailcity com>]

hi

 i have just installed redhat 5.1 for intel from the powertools CD,  my DHCP fails, i have included the relevant messages. Please help. my system is dual boot linux/win98 and dhcp under win98 works fine

this is what i see on the bootup screen

loading device 'eth0'...
eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xe400, 00:10:5a:ac:14:b8, IRQ 11
  8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/10baseT interface.
  Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
Using DHCP for eth0.... failed


dmesg gives the following output

loading device 'eth0'...
eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xe400, 00:10:5a:ac:14:b8, IRQ 11
  8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/10baseT interface.
  Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
ARP: arp called for own IP address
ARP: arp called for own IP address
ARP: arp called for own IP address
ARP: arp called for own IP address
ARP: arp called for own IP address
ARP: arp called for own IP address
ARP: arp called for own IP address
ARP: arp called for own IP address
ARP: arp called for own IP address
eth0: setting promiscuous mode

thanks in advance for your help
rk


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