There are several reports of netcfg looping back to an earlier step: #265651: netcfg: DHCP attempt infinitely loops #263187: netcfg: DHCP attempt infinitely loops #261460: netcfg: manual configuration infinitely loops #261527: netcfg: manual configuration infinitely loops #266245: netcfg: after manual configuration, loops back to DHCP attempt Could these possibly be related? ;) -- Thomas Hood