Help: Mandriva 2005: Ethernet card won't get IP address from DHCP server

From: Michael Badt (mb_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/08/05 

Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 17:56:19 +0300

Hi,
My laptop is connected to the Internet via a LAN served by a DHCP server.
It seems to me that the Ethernet card won't get an IP address from the DHCP
server neither during boot, nor during several "manual" trials using the
respective "drakes" (wizards). Among others, I've tried to use both
dhclient and pump protocol for the card.
Both the laptop and LAN work-I can connect in Win2K also installed (by my
employee) on that laptop.
Enclosed please find outputs of:
a. ifconfig (note eth0 has no "regular" IP address).
b. route (note that originally route was empty. I have manually added that
entry).
c. /etc/resolv.conf is empty.

By the way, can somebody explain me what's the sit0 response to ifconfig
(didn't see this one in former Mandrake versions).

TIA

Michael Badt
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output of ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:A5:BA:EF:CC
          inet6 addr: fe80::202:a5ff:feba:efcc/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:5930 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:758851 (741.0 Kb) TX bytes:5580 (5.4 Kb)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:135 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:135 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:10098 (9.8 Kb) TX bytes:10098 (9.8 Kb)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
          UP RUNNING NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

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Output of route

Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use
Iface
default * 0.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
==========================================================

/etc/resolv.conf is empty

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