[Wylug-help] networking laptop woes [Red Hat DHCP logging]

[Dave Fisher]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 12:14:46PM +0100, Mike Goodman wrote:
> lsmod, dmesg and lspci. Do they help? I can't find any log files that
> mean anything to me regarding LAN but I'm happy to copy them all across
> if it may help. They're in /var/log but there is no /var/log/syslog and
> nosing around elsewhere for a couple of hours late last night didn't
> throw light on anything.

I still think that your best bet is to find the DHCP-related logs.
Otherwise your stabs in the dark are likely to be as effective as
playing 'pin the head on a trans-dimensional pan-galactic improbability
donkey'.

Hopefully some Red Hat user on the list can tell us where the relevant
logs  are on your system.

I wouldn't be surprised if RH did something 'special' with DHCP, but I'd
be gobsmacked if you didn't have a syslog somewhere.

If we can identify the correct log files, we can probably tell you what
to search for inside them ... I'm pretty certain that you won't find
much useful with a search term like 'LAN'.

Dave