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[Aniruddha <mailing_list@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 07:56 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote:
> My openSUSE 10.2 laptop has been on the corporate network since being  
> upgraded from Vista in May (a week after I got it).
>
> Suddenly yesterday, I cannot connect to anything. I checked and found  
> that my network - eth0 - is on but that I'm connected to a 'default'  
> network of 169.254.x.x, which I'm told is a Microsoft network. My  
> network admins (who work for me) are not able to help since none know  
> Linux.
>
> We recently switched from an NT 4.0 Domain to a new AD setup. That  
> switch was three weeks ago, so I can't imagine this issue is related.
>
> In googling, I found that there apparently is no GUI tool for  
> configuring or renewing DHCP leases. I dropped down to the command  
> line and have tried both 'service network restart' and 'dhclient -r  
> eth0'
>
> In both cases, the network releases and then comes back.
>
> Ideas? This is too weird.
>
> -- 
> kai ponte
> www.perfectreign.com

Have you tried using Knetworkmanager ?


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