Toshikazu Aiyama, Ph.D. wrote: > 3. Expert install fails producing the following message: > [!!] Configure the network > Network autoconfiguration failed > Your network is probably not using the DHCP protocol. Alternatively, the DHCP > server may be slow or some network hardware is not working properly. > > > Alt-F4 produces (listed partially only): > > dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth1/00:02:8a:5b:73:a7 > dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth1/00:02:8a;5b:73:a7 > dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net > dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 > kernel: eth1: New link status: Connected (0001) > dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10 > dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 > dhclient: DHCPOFFER from 192.168.96.254 > dhclient: DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 > dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.96.254 > dhclient: bound to 192.168.96.128 -- renewal in 1800 seconds. > > > It seems everything is working properly except the message; thus I kept on > going w/o network configuration. Is there some reason why you didn't just let it try again? It should notice the second time that it did obtain a dhcp lease. -- see shy jo
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