Can’t allocate interface atlease
February 1st, 2008
Tag: debian
After a recent update of my dhcp3 package I could not perform dhcp requests anymore and got the following error message
After a recent update of my dhcp3 package I could not perform dhcp requests anymore and got the following error message
wifi0: unknown hardware address type 801
Can't allocate interface atlease {
interface .
Failed to bring up ath0.
The problem was with changes due to the upgrade in the following file
/var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.ath0.leases
It added this line which broke the dhcp provess.
interface "atlease {
Remove this line and you should be fine.
November 11th, 2008 at 5:14 am
Ah, perfect. That was driving me crazy. Thanks.