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  1. Bug #312157
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 312157

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Gregor (aguafuertes) wrote :

And just like with the original reporter, things work again. I rebooted the laptop and the router serveral times, and now DHCP works again, without changing any seetings are installing any updates.

This is especially strange as I could connect via DHCP with an old Laptop running Intrepid the whole time.

The output from running dhclient looks as follows, the strange wmaster0 message remains:

sudo dhclient
[sudo] password for aguafuertes:
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/wmaster0/
Sending on LPF/wmaster0/
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:1f:e2:18:d1:51
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:1f:e2:18:d1:51
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:21:5c:54:5d:25
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:21:5c:54:5d:25
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wmaster0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPOFFER of 192.168.1.101 from 192.168.1.1
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.101 on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK of 192.168.1.101 from 192.168.1.1
 * Reloading /etc/samba/smb.conf smbd only
   ...done.
bound to 192.168.1.101 -- renewal in 36447 seconds.