dhcp not working automatically in feisty

[gaunt]

Binary package hint: knetworkmanager

since upgrading to feisty the network never starts up. after every boot i have to manually start dhclient
/etc/network/interfaces is:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Mar 20 13:33:19 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux pme-desktop 2.6.20-12-386 #2 Sun Mar 18 03:04:09 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[emil_p8 (emile-visual)]

Same for me, with edgy my WiFi connection to a router was auto enabled at startup, which permitted me to do connection sharing to another PC. Even more, in feisty knetworkmanager seems unable to initiate dhclient when i try to connect it to this network (which is BTW unencrypted).

my etc/network/interfaces :

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
address 127.0.0.1
netmask 255.0.0.0

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.0.0.1
netmask 255.255.255.0

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp

auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

iface rausb1 inet dhcp
wireless-essid NETGEAR

auto rausb1

[Ben Stanley (ben-stanley)]

I can reproduce this with the Feisty 7.04 Beta i386 CD and an updated hard disk installation. I'm using a simple desktop box with one network card. My network has a DHCP server. When the box comes up, ifconfig reveals that the network card has no IP address. I can resolve this manually by running

/etc/init.d/networking restart

However, I should not have to do this every time I boot! This problem is pretty serious for those of us with a DHCP server on our networks (which is anyone with an ADSL modem router these days).

I think this problem has little to do with knetworkmanager and lots to do with NetworkManager and avahi-autoipd and avahi-daemon.

My /etc/network/interfaces :

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp

auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

[gaunt (meisel-denkformat)]

Since fridays updates dhcp is now starting automatically again for me. However, knetworkmanager says it has not found any network devices and displays an error icon in the tray.

[Sujee Maniyam (sujee)]

DHCP and KNetworkManager seem to be working properly for me on Feisty (7.04) and Gutsy (7.10). Can you run with latest updates and verify?
Thanks!

[Ben Stanley (ben-stanley)]

DHCP is working properly now on Feisty with Ubuntu (I don't have Kubuntu
installed).

Ben.

On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 08:27 +0000, LinuxLover wrote:
> DHCP and KNetworkManager seem to be working properly for me on Feisty (7.04) and Gutsy (7.10). Can you run with latest updates and verify?
> Thanks!
>
> ** Changed in: knetworkmanager (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => LinuxLover
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

[Sujee Maniyam (sujee)]

marking as fixed, as per comments.