[Nottingham] DHCP problem

Rory Holland rory at linux.com
Wed Nov 10 13:31:08 UTC 2010


IDK about DHCP, but about your email problem, see here:
http://blazemore.blogspot.com/2010/07/evolution-university-of-nottingham.html

On 10 November 2010 13:21, Aritra Dalal <aritra.dalal at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hey!
> I'm at the Nottingham University and for some reason I cannot seem to be
> able to get on the network easily from my Ubuntu OS. I've tried various EAP
> settings, but found Tunnelled TLS to work best (if at all). It takes a
> couple of tries for the network to recognise my username, and after the
> computer does get registered, the DHCP client fails to receive any
> information 9 out of 10 times. In the rare occasion it does connect, the
> network speeds are worse than the 56k dialup speeds (with and without the
> proxies).
>
> What's funny is that when i log into my windows partition, it works fine,
> and works fine with my Maemo linux device. And as far as Ubuntu goes, I
> tried it on 10.04 and on a fresh install of 10.10.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Aritra.
>
> PS. Also, does anyone know if the evolution's 'evolution-mapi' plugin (
> http://www.go-evolution.org/MAPIProvider) can be used to access the new
> mail servers on the university nottingham servers?
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