[ltp] Re: Curious WiFi issue dual booting w/T42 running Suse10.3

[Jeffrey Taylor]

Quoting Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:
> > Did you take down the interface (i.e., give up the lease) before
> > switching OS?  The router may see the same MAC addres and think
> > nothing needs to be done.
> 
> Sounds hard to believe: the router should still reply to DHCP requests,
> even if they come from a MAC address that's already registered.
> 

That's what debugging is all about, checking/verifying/etc. the things that
should work.  Except they don't always.  You might also include brand and
model of the router and harware and firmware versions.  And the wireless card
model.  Someone else may have already found the bug and the fix/workaround.

Jeffrey