On Thursday 01 November 2007 14:56:42 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. >
That address is the type that gets assigned when the DHCP address isn't assigned due to a timeout (for example). Have a look at /var/log/messages and grep for 'ifup-dhcp' to see if there are errors that could help. Good luck Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
