DHCP configuration for SpareMint on Atari ST, STE, TT, Falcon

This guide steps you to setup & configure DHCP in Atari SpareMint environment. It is recommended that the DHCP is installed in the SpareMint environment as it requires several software components that are installed by other RPM packages. Installing those prerequisite packages makes DHCP works without giving error messages.

Setup & configurating DHCP in SpareMint

It is assumed that the entire list of RPM files on "RPM package installation sequence" are already installed and that you're already running SpareMint environment. Also that your home network contains a DHCP server. As usual, the network hardware must be connected, it's device drive in the form of XIF files are copied into the Mint system folder, the INET.XDD is also enabled.

1. Disabling the SpareMint network configuration

If you have not configured networking yet, you can ignore this step.

Edit the file /etc/sysconfig/config.if and comment out the parameter line by adding a "#" in the beginning of the line. The commented line is shown in red below.

# example: ne0 192.168.0.10 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.255

# this setup interface ne0 with IP 192.168.0.10

#

#en0 192.168.0.10 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.255

#en0 192.168.0.28 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.255

2. Disabling the routing file

Again, if you have not configured networking yet, you can ignore this step.

Edit the routing file /etc/sysconfig/defaultroute and comment out the routing parameter line by adding a "#" in the beginning of the line. The commented line is shown below in red.

# example: ne0 192.168.0.200

# this set the defaultroute over ne0 to 192.168.0.200

#

#en0 192.168.0.1

#en0 192.168.0.1

3. Enable DHCP

Edit the network services file /etc/sysconfig/net.services and add the word "dhclient" at the end of the file. The added word "dhclient" is shown in red below. Do not add any blank lines between the comments and the new line or add any blanks lines after it.

# the default network services that are started on every system boot

# after the network is setted up

# it's interpreted as /etc/rc.d/init.d/ start

#

dhclient

4. Reboot to load DHCP for SpareMint

Reboot your Atari and during the start up of Mint you will notice that DHCP is started and acquires an IP address for your Atari

Congratulations, you are now networking with SpareMint.

Note: The output of the DHCP client are captured into your syslog.

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