On Ma, 31 aug 10, 04:48:36, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > What might be the problem that my laptop can't acquire dchp lease from > Linux while Windows can? > > Same spot, same line. Tried two different distros that had no problem > acquiring dchp lease at my home, neither works. Wired network, not > wireless, but wireless network works. > > What might be the reason? Might the network require IPX to acquire dchp > lease or using wins services? -- just making wild guesses here. Is this a dual-boot machine? The DHCP server might ignore unknown MACs. Are you sending a hostname? AFAIR dhclient is not sending one by default and maybe the DHCP server is ignoring unknown hostnames as well. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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