VinzC
February 1st, 2009, 12:53 AM
Hi.
I have installed Ubuntu 8.10 on a Dell Vostro 1000. It has a Broadcom BCM4311 wireless adapter. I used my home network to install it two or three weeks ago. I used it again probably once or twice with my home network until today.
Today I powered my laptop up again and it connected successfully to my home network when the network connection suddenly dropped while I was downloading updates. I could connect to my neighbour's wireless LAN and get an IP however :s.
I tried to connect several times again to my home network, in vain. On my DHCP server (it's dnsmasq-2.45 under Gentoo Linux) I can see DHCPDISCOVER and DHCPOFFER message pairs 4 times. This means BTW the wireless connection is established; the problem hence just lies within the DHCP client. I think the Dell laptop makes 4 attempts to get an IP address and gives up. I then get a notification "Network connection was closed" when I change to my home network manually.
I'm running dhcp3-client-3.1.1-1ubuntu2 on my Ubuntu laptop. Does anyone know how to cure that issue?
Thanks in advance.
I have installed Ubuntu 8.10 on a Dell Vostro 1000. It has a Broadcom BCM4311 wireless adapter. I used my home network to install it two or three weeks ago. I used it again probably once or twice with my home network until today.
Today I powered my laptop up again and it connected successfully to my home network when the network connection suddenly dropped while I was downloading updates. I could connect to my neighbour's wireless LAN and get an IP however :s.
I tried to connect several times again to my home network, in vain. On my DHCP server (it's dnsmasq-2.45 under Gentoo Linux) I can see DHCPDISCOVER and DHCPOFFER message pairs 4 times. This means BTW the wireless connection is established; the problem hence just lies within the DHCP client. I think the Dell laptop makes 4 attempts to get an IP address and gives up. I then get a notification "Network connection was closed" when I change to my home network manually.
I'm running dhcp3-client-3.1.1-1ubuntu2 on my Ubuntu laptop. Does anyone know how to cure that issue?
Thanks in advance.