DHCP will not grab ip.

[Dave Feustel]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 12:32:49PM -0400, 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.

Unfortunately, I don't remember any details except that, as you noted,
no network connection was established at system powerup one morning.

> I gave up, I removed NM totally and completely, and now do the whole 
> setup with a script run at boot time.

All I have do to get connectivity is run dhclient as root.