manually forcing a IP renewal

Wade Smart wade at wadesmart.com
Sat Nov 24 16:56:25 UTC 2007


11242007 1047 GMT-6

My new neighbor has a older Gateway computer ELP 500C. He has three 
windows computers hooked to a hub and uses a ambit cable modem. He 
replaced one of the windows computers with a ubuntu computer. So far he 
cant get the machine to receive a IP address.

He tried:
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart  with returned command not found.
sudo dhclient  returned: DHCPDISCOVER and then after about three minute 
wait DHCPOFFERS receivd no working leases in persistened database - 
sleeping.

When he removes this ubuntu computer and connect his Windows computer, 
the windows computers gets a ip right away.

Wade




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