I had a perfect working Vista PE boot CD that seemed to get an IP when any computer booted from it.

I got a new HP DC5800 that I am testing on, and recieve the following error message:

An error occurred while renewing interface Local Area Network Connection: unable to contact your DHCP server. Request has timed out.

An error occured while releasing inferface Loopback Pseudo-Interface 1: the system cannot find the file specified.

My Startnet.cmd begins with:

@echo off
TITLE Boot CD v 3.1
wpeinit

:Menu
CLS
REM Makes sure that an IP has been obtained
ipconfig /renew

I checked with our network guy, and this computer doesn't even show up on the network...

Any ideas?

i think u need add HP DC5800 network adapter driver to PE.

it will be automatic obtain a IP address form DHCP server after PE startup, so u don't need use "ipconfig /renew" command.

I have it in there. And actually, after a few minutes, it seems to find the IP. It just needs to wait, and I don't know how to stall my script for that.

if you run just ipconfig does it list any adapters? If not installed the appropriate drivers, if it does verify that you have a good network connection from a full windwos OS.

It does find an IP, but not right away. I get a 169.* IP, and then I get the DHCP error

It appears after I wait a few minutes, it then gets an IP address. I started my startnet.cmd with a ipconfig /release *LOCAL* and /renew *local*, with no avail. It told me: An address has not yet been associated with the network endpoint.

So it seems the network adapter needs to "initialize" or something

Edited December 3, 200718 yr by dkreifus

It seems to me that is what wpeinit was supposed to do.. try adding a "start /wait" in front of it and see what happens.

looks like you got a ZeroConf/APIPA address

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APIPA#Choosing_addresses

I'd guess either your DHCP server isnt running or it is configured not to give out adresses to your PE. Maybe it uses client-ids , class-ids or something else.

Did you try to boot your PE on other hardware?

oh and another idea:

get some cheap hub, another PC/Laptop with WireShark and hook that up so you can sniff the traffic. Maybe you can find the real problem easier if you can see what happens on the line.

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http://www.wireshark.org/

Edited December 3, 200718 yr by bj-kaiser

It seems to me that is what wpeinit was supposed to do.. try adding a "start /wait" in front of it and see what happens.

looks like you got a ZeroConf/APIPA address

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APIPA#Choosing_addresses

I'd guess either your DHCP server isnt running or it is configured not to give out adresses to your PE. Maybe it uses client-ids , class-ids or something else.

Did you try to boot your PE on other hardware?

oh and another idea:

get some cheap hub, another PC/Laptop with WireShark and hook that up so you can sniff the traffic. Maybe you can find the real problem easier if you can see what happens on the line.

--

http://www.wireshark.org/

I have successfly got it working on all my other machines. This is a brand new, obviously, its a beta. I got this error before, but i added the ipconfig /renew and it seemed to work. I'll start the star /wait....

Also, I'm using the Vista drivers...as I believe I should be

Edited December 3, 200718 yr by dkreifus

I used:

start /wait wpeinit
ipconfig /renew *Local*

Then I got:

An error occurred while renewing interface Local Area Network Connection: unable to contact your DHCP server. Request has timed out.

As soon as I ran IPCONFIG /RENEW manually again, it took an IP address...