spanky1 Posted July 30, 2008 Share Posted July 30, 2008 (edited) What's up guys. This may have a simple solution, but I'm stumped... and pretty confused. I'm setting up Debian on the free space of a new laptop, the first try goes great. But after finalizing the installation I decided there were a few things I wanted changed (partitioning, swap size, forgot to select/add "Laptop" at the package installation menu", etc). I figured it would be easier to just go through the installation process again, this time with my desired configurations. I know, should have payed more attention the first time, but... oh well I guess. Anyway, on the first run, the network auto-configuration utility automatically setup everything via DHCP. No problem. However the second time, under the exact same circumstances... Network Auto-configuration failed. Typical "Your network is probably not using DHCP" message... I plugged the cable back into another machine, just to make sure everything was operating smoothly... it was. Plugged it back into the laptop and tried again. Same thing. I've been working at this, completely puzzled for the last hour. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated... I know I can just configure it manually, but I'd prefer to let DHCP do it for me. Not only that, but now I just want to know why this is happening in the first place. Thanks in advance!! P.s. I've gone as far as to do a hard reset of my router, thinking it may reset DHCP leasings if something was going wrong there. Still no go. What gives? Ps.s. I'm using a Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC, which debian loads module r8169 for. I know that configuration has seen many problems, and I've tried solutions for each (Wake-on-LAN on my vista partition is already enabled) with no luck yet. Strange. Edited July 30, 2008 by spanky1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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