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

From: Scott McDonough <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 06:59:14 -0700

Success!
Thank you very much for your quick response.

Who is the person who maintains the Reference Manual.
I could forward this email to them.
These extra clarifications were very useful.

Scott

On 05/15/2015 09:54 AM, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> 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’.