DHCP IP lease attempt failed on Archlinux
If you routinely use Archlinux's sudo wifi-select wlan0
UI to get online, you
might have seen this dreaded error message:
DHCP IP lease attempt failed.
After Googling I found these two links interesting:
- https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=120230
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/305338
Solutions to try
Clear dhcpcd leases
Nuke leaeses in /var/lib/dhcpcd
rm /var/lib/dhcpcd/*
Switch to dhclient (providing you have it installed)
Add DHCLIENT=yes
hendry@x201 network.d$ cat /etc/network.d/Fluent\ Space | grep DHCLIENT
DHCLIENT=yes
There is a bunch of Archlinux wireless quirk switches to try too and of course bumping up the TIMEOUT value.