This week I noticed to my delight that this is fixed in 10.10 Beta. My colleagues with 10.04 still suffer from this - you can of course renew the IP if you can physically access the computer, but it is obviously impossible to do it remotely.
-- NetworkManager does not activate Wired connection when DHCP server not present https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/274593 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs