DHCP not activated or configured after install

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openSuse 11.1 using ifup instead of network manager. Yast2 network services is missing dhcp service. Same is true for xinetd.d. I have used static routing to validate that hardware is good. I can ping other systems local and can browse the router url via eth0.

dhcpd is installed at /usr/lib/scpm/resource_groups.

Site router will only route to internet for dhcp connected hosts. I would appreciate some help on how to get SUSE to initialize dhcp client on boot.

I have already removed /etc/resolv.conf and turned off ipv6.

Same distribution worked fine for laptop on the same local network. Server is having problem. Same SUSE install procedures.

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Same problem. Already tried remove /etc/resolv.conf and disabling ipv6. Still nothing. I have to manually type

dhcpcd wlan0
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Thanks, I will try that.

My solution was to assign a static address within the IP range of my router at the upper end of the range that I am sure will not be used by the DHCP server within the router. Once I had done that and hand configured a default route, I was able to get to the internet and download the development tools I needed.

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If static works, DHCP should work as well. Adding a default gateway might have done the job AFAIK.