[ltp] Please help me pick out my next thinkpad

[John Jason Jordan]

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:51:39 +0300
Marius Gedminas <mgedmin@b4net.lt> dijo:

> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 10:44:23PM -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > Ever since my upgrade from Gutsy x86_64 to Hardy x86_64 I have been
> > using the 4965. Previously I used a Netgear PCMCIA card because of
> > problems with the 4965.
> > 
> > The situation is now tolerable, but I still get random disconnects, or
> > sometimes I remain connected but lose my DHCP lease. For example,
> > sitting in the library at the university almost directly under an
> > access point, wicd shows 95%, I connect without problem. I access the
> > library catalog, find what I want, and then go to writing a text
> > document. Fifteen minutes later I need to access the library catalog
> > again and discover that I have been disconnected, or that I am still
> > connected but my DHCP lease is gone.
> 
> That sounds like you either
> 
>   (A) have two DHCP daemons running in parallel
> 
> or
> 
>   (B) have a buggy Network Manager that doesn't understand you successfully
>       acquired a DHCP lease.
> 
> I suffered from condition (A) a while back.  IIUC it was the combination of
> Ubuntu/Debian's network configuration scripts interpreting my "please
> bring up eth1 automatically" config in /etc/network/interfaces by "hey,
> let's run dhclient3 on it" while at the same time network-manager
> interpreted the same configuration as "hey, let me run *my* dhcp client
> on it".  Every 10 minutes or so one of the DHCP clients would drop all
> existing IP addresses from the interface and start requesting new ones.

I doubt that it is network manager, because it is not installed. It was
uninstalled automatically when I installed wicd. Yet the problem
continues.

However, your first point (A) strikes a chord. At home my house is
wired for gigabit ethernet, so I have no wireless at all. When I get
home I put the T61 in its mini-dock and the network is "just there." 

So how do I find out if I have two DHCP daemons running in parallel? I
suppose I'd have to be at the university or somewhere connected via
wireless to see, since I am sure the wireless is not running at home
(never get disconnected at home). Is there a command line tool I can
use to see if I have two daemons running? (Note that I am a dummy about
such things.)