dhcp will not configure eth0
garrone
pgarrone at optusnet.com.au
Sun Jan 4 14:42:14 UTC 2009
Hi,
I have a sony vaio VGN-NR37G laptop on which I have recently installed
ubuntu-intrepid, from ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso.
I cannot get eth0 working from an ethernet cable modem. I can plug the cable into a
desktop (AMD64) running intrepid and it always reconnects no problems. However
the same cable in hopefully a similar distribution fails to fire up the
networking.
Using tcpdump, incoming dhcp packets can be observed with the
prospective address. The utility dhclient triggers the install scripts,
and avahi will even assign the address to the eth0 port, if the command
"dhclient -1 eth0" is run. However dhclient always ultimately
reports a failure, (no DHCPOFFERS received), and exits. DNS never
works, even when occasionally an address is assigned to the port by
avahi.
I must say I do not really understand the interaction between dhcp,
avahi, and network-manager. They are all involved in the chain of
events. I imagine that dhcp has control and is ultimately failing, so I
should focus my debugging there. I have compared "/etc" configurations with
the working desktop, and cannot see anything significant.
I am looking for any debugging suggestions, or possibly packages
that should be updated to address this problem (Without networking, each package has to be
downloaded separately and copied and updated with dpkg).
Cheers,
Peter
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