DHCP is very unreliable.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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dhcp3 (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I'm using a D-Link DWL-G122 USB wireless dongle with Karmic. I have removed network manager (causes me all sorts of other problems), and am configuring the network using the /etc/network/
andrew@
* Reconfiguring network interfaces... There is already a pid file /var/run/
killed old client process, removed PID file
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.2
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://
Listening on LPF/wlan0/
Sending on LPF/wlan0/
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPRELEASE on wlan0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.2
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://
Listening on LPF/wlan0/
Sending on LPF/wlan0/
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
I have seen other people in forums with seemingly similar problems, and they have suggested such things as stopping apparmor, which I have tried, and it does not seem to make a whole lot of difference! They also suggest adding a line:
pre-up sleep 10
after the line
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
in my /etc/network/
Thanks,
Andrew Walsh.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 2 20:41:16 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /sbin/dhclient3
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: dhcp3-client 3.1.2-1ubuntu7
ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user)
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: dhcp3
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
(gnome-
(nautilus:1584): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences
(polkit-
Can you attach output of the the following:
dmesg
and the output of the command:
grep dhcp /var/log/ daemon. log.
Thanks
chuck