On Fri, 14 May 2010, Frank Zimmermann wrote: > Am 12.05.2010 19:18, schrieb Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn: > > > Can you access that router from your wife's box (Ubuntu 8.10 with > > network manager) and have a look at the dhcp logs? Something (client > > maybe) may be eating up all available ip-addresses. Or there's a > > buggy dhcp-server on your router. It's, not at all, an unusual > > scenario :( > > I can access the router and it only says: > sending OFFER to 192...
And there's nothing there to configure to get more proper logging? > > wicd is _the_ better choice, IMNSHO. wicd should be available on > > ubuntu. If it's not available on 8.10, you may consider upgrading your > > wife's box to a more recent ubuntu vesion. > > OK I was thinking to update to 10.4 anyway. Just wanted to wait if > there'll pop up some serious bugs. Or just _upgrade_ to karmic (9.10) for the time being, unless you're brave enough? 8.10 -> 10.4: is that an upgradable path? Or is it a reinstall you're thinking of? > I'll take this opportunity to switch to wicd and hope she wont > realise;-) Should be quite transparent, but not _that_ transparent to skip configuration. Cheers, -- Cristian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1005142151400.3...@somehost
