Aidan Gauland wrote:
Hello,
I've got a really weird problem with my laptop. What I've been doing
that has worked up until now is connect my laptop and desktop via a
loopback ethernet cable, and giving each a static IP address using the
network manager GUI (I'm using GNOME), and we're off. When I try to
do that now, the laptop's IP address changes to 169.254.93.80 within a
few seconds of connecting (I can see this only with ifconfig, but not
the GUI). Looking at the system log, I see a bunch of messages about
DHCPDISCOVER and eventually a message from NetworkManager saying "No
DHCP reply received. Automatically obtaining IP via Zeroconf." And
goes on to say that it's using IP address 169.254.93.80
I don't have the zeroconf package installed, and I can use the laptop
on my school's LAN with no problems. The only recent change I have
made to my system is installing Firestarter, but I turned all that off
to try and solve this problem.
Thanks,
Aidan
Looks to me like dhcp is trying to get an address.
What distro are you using?
Each distro seems to have a different way to disable DHCP.
Rob
