DHCP will not grab ip.

[Alex Makhlin]

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Dave Feustel wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 10:20:17PM +0100, Laura Speck wrote:
>
>> I have F9 running on a computer with just one nic. Everything worked
>> until about a week ago, when the nic suddenly no longer automatically
>> got a dhcp address. My work around is to run dhclient etho &. DHCP
>> connects then. I still haven't figured out why this happened or what
>> the correct fix is.
>>
> I had a thread going about the recent "enhancement" to NetworkManager. 
> After applying that both my hardwire and wireless NICs stopped 
> working. Did you by any chance "upgrade" your packages recently, say 
> about the time everything stopped working? Mine worked after the 
> upgrade until the next reboot, then went away forever. I tried to 
> force a downgrade, but rpm was designed to work in one direction only, 
> there's no way to tell rpm or yum to roll back and rollback all the 
> dependencies at the same time.
>
> I gave up, I removed NM totally and completely, and now do the whole 
> setup with a script run at boot time.
>
Relax, your network card is a hard one. I will look for a solution  and 
will get back to you.