Comment 3 for bug 20857

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

Right, but the ethernet card is configured ...

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:09:D3:91:AD
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

And seems to be both sending and receiving packets on the network ...

Could you attach your /var/log/syslog so we can see the output from dhclient.
My current suspicion is that your dhcp server simply isn't responding.