Subject: Re: bug#20582: GuixSD ver 0.8.2, DHCLIENT not setting up the network.

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 18:54:41 +0200

宋文武 <[email-masked]> skribis:

> 2015-05-15 11:15 GMT+08:00 Scott McDonough <[email-masked]>:
>> I downloaded Guix and tried to install it but DHCLIENT times out and does
>> not set up the NIC card.  This command worked fine on my hardware with ver
>> 0.8.1. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
> Maybe you need set up the NIC first?

Right, you need to run:

  ifconfig eth0orwhatever up

before running:

  dhclient -v eth0orwhatever

HTH,
Ludo’.