Re: [Unattended] Unable to obtain IP from DHCP server

[Ryan Gallagher]

Sure enough, this fixed it.  That's really strange. Thanks a lot though, this was really bugging me. Hi all and thanks so much for Unattended! I'm a longtime UNIX admin and recently started a new admin job at a mainly Windows shop...talk about a fish out of water. Anyway deploying Unattended has impressed my employer and made me look good :) Now about this DHCP problem, I have seen this exact same behavior Ryan reports, in my case on old Dell laptops using pcmcia cards for networking. The solution I found is...after you get dumped to the shell prompt simply execute /etc/master This starts up the unattended config script again getting you a DHCP lease and continuing on as normal. I don't understand why running master a second time works but it does. Regards, Veedar Ryan Gallagher Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:28:12 -0800 Hi everyone, I have two computers a Dell Optiplex GX260 and an Optiplex GX270. Both of these computers have integrated network cards, and neither seems to be able to get an IP address. When I boot from the Linux CD, the network card gets detected correctly, but never gets an IP. The debug message will just display until it dumps to the shell. These computers both work fine with windows installed and get IP addresses without a problem. I > am not sure why this is happening. Every other computer I have tried the boot disk on has > worked correctly. Thanks for any insight you can provide. ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info