[svlug] Machine booting to weird address

[Skip Evans]

Hey all,

The machine set up as my music server, like all my machines 
here, has a wireless Rosewill RNX-G300LX card.

Everything boots up with a 192.168.1.X address, but for some 
reason the music server is booting up to 192.254.4.176 about 
one half of the time.

I just had to boot it four times before it came up on it's 
usual address of 192.168.1.42.

Here's the ifconfig snippet that shows the address when it 
boots up normally, which it just did

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1a:ef:05:1e:70
           inet addr:192.168.1.42  Bcast:255.255.255.255 
Mask:255.255.255.0


But in the weird cases the 192.254 address will show up where 
192.268.1.42 address is.

Could it be finding a different wireless router on those 
occasions or something?

Any help, as always, is greatly appreciated.

Skip

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Skip Evans
PenguinSites.com, LLC
503 S Baldwin St, #1
Madison WI 53703
608.250.2720
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