Fixing IP Renewal After Laptop Suspend

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Published on 2011-03-29T11:19:00Z Indexed on 2011/06/24 0:31 UTC
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I have a laptop running Ubuntu 10.04, and I've noticed that with some wifi networks, but not all, I'm unable to reconnect after coming out of suspension. I've tried both Network Manager and Wicd management daemons, and both get through validation, but get hung up on "Acquiring IP address...". The only solution I've found is to reboot the machine, after which it acquires an IP address very quickly.

What's the underlying issue here? What would be a more efficient way to resolve the problem?

EDIT: I've noticed that if I open Wicd and manually press "Connect", it fails to acquire an IP. However, if I do nothing and let it automatically try and connect, it acquires an IP and connects just fine...

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