I think you are onto it. I booted 2 windows machines then my puppy laptop(dhcpcd) and no problems. The other puppy machine runs a frugal install so it shouldn't be too hard to change the hostname. Thanks gyrogyro wrote:Just one more guess. Maybe your dhcp server dosen't like more than 1 request from the same hostname. By default all Puppy machines have a hostname of "puppypc". This can be modified by replacing "puppypc" in both "/etc/hostname" and "/etc/hosts" with a name of your choice, but different on each pc.01micko wrote: This only makes me more suspiscious of a dhcpcd problem in puppy with more than one puppypc on the network.
Actually to test the theory you only have to change the hostname on 1 of the pc's.
PS: sorry, it's been a while since I looked at this topic.
gyro
UPDATE: Yes it works! However to ensure everything saves and survives a reboot I had to unload my wireless module, reload it and I even changed the name of the saved profile in Network Wizard. Survived