Thanks for your reaction and sugestion, Otavio. It doesn't seem likely though:
> this is likely a kernel issue with your NIC. I tested this by changing the (virtual) hardware type of the nic of the Debian Squeeze guest from "PCnet-FAST III (Am79C973)" to "Intel PRO/1000 T Server (82543GC)", commenting out the first eth0 in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and setting the eth0 in /etc/network/interfaces back from auto to allow-hotplug. No effect. The same bug (no dhcp supplied address acquired on the nic) showed up. Changing from allow-hotplug to auto also remedied this. I'll try this evening putting a "pre-up sleep 5" in interfaces and report back. Sincerely, Jan. On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Otavio Salvador <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 13:38, Jan de Haan <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > > It's a squeeze problem since dhcp of the pxe boot of the client (which > was > > used to install Squeeze) does function. > ... > > In this case, the best is to file a bug against linux-2.6 kernel since > this is likely a kernel issue with your NIC. > > -- > Otavio Salvador O.S. Systems > E-mail: [email protected] http://www.ossystems.com.br > Mobile: +55 53 9981-7854 http://projetos.ossystems.com.br > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- "Piracy is simply demand where supply does not exist."

