[SOLVED] getting ip of 0.0.0.0

chaimblonder · 09-20-2010, 09:56 AM

hello. i use ubuntu 10.04 desktop edition 32 bit. i have a problem with my wireless connection. i get an ip address (DHCP) of 0.0.0.0 and the odd thing is that the netmask (255.0.0.0) and gateway (10.0.0.138) in fine. i have a simple siemens router.
if i set a manual ip everything works OK.
what can it be?

thank you

repo · 09-20-2010, 10:03 AM

Is the DHCP server on the router configured correctly?
Any pointers in the logfiles from the router?

Kind regards

chaimblonder · 09-20-2010, 10:21 AM

yes the router is configured correctly and no clues on the logs. everything worked fine until couple of hours ago. also, there is another laptop connected with wireless (Windows XP) and it works fine.

PTrenholme · 09-20-2010, 12:21 PM

First, check that your dhclient.conf file is present. It should look somewhat like this:

Code:

$ cat /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf | grep -v ^#

option rfc3442-classless-static-routes code 121 = array of unsigned integer 8;

send host-name "<hostname>";
request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
        domain-name, domain-name-servers, domain-search, host-name,
        netbios-name-servers, netbios-scope, interface-mtu,
        rfc3442-classless-static-routes, ntp-servers;

If that looks correct, see if sudo dhclient wlan0 fixes the problem. (Note that "wlan0" should be replaced by your actual connection name. "wlan0" is typical for a wireless connection, but other name are often used.)

If that works, see if you can figure out why dhclient is not being started correctly when you boot.

chaimblonder · 09-20-2010, 10:23 PM

thanks a lot. dhclient worked. i will try to figure out why it won't run correctly on startup. thank again