Network Printer - Cannot Acquire a Lease through DHCP

TL;DR: Changed ISP and printer does not/cannot acquire a lease from new modem/router. I haver an Hp LaserJet 4050 with an HP 615n 100BASE-T NIC. This setup would acquire a lease and work flawlessly through an AT&T 2WIRE router. No special setup was needed other than enabling DHCP/BOOTP on the printer. I then moved to an area not serviced by AT&T. My new provider, CableOne, provided me with an Arris Touchstone Gateway. All of the computers on my LAN will acquire leases without issue, but the printer will not. I've looked at every setting available through my gateway's web interface and can find no setting that will permit the printer to acquire a lease or would otherwise cause/fix this situation. I have reset the printer settings to factory defaults. The TCP/IP section of the configuration settings on the printer will show the default IP of 192.0.0.192; the status will show "55 - BOOTP/DHCP IN PROGRESS" The printer's NIC is communicating, as Wireshark will show IGMP messages from the printer to a couple of different multicast addresses. Any hints in diagnosing are appreciated. If further info is needed, please let me know.

Hello sabretooth04, thanks for your reply. I thought I had provided most of that information, but here goes: Detailed problem description - see original post - too detailed to repeat. OS of computer: I have seven different OSs on this LAN, including OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Arch Linux, Gentoo, slackware, and windows Vista, SP2. Connection is ethernet. Make and model of modem: Make: Arris; Model: Touchstone Data Gateway. Error messages: none. Printer has been powered off/on multiple times to no avail. The printer is sending DHCP Discover requests (multiple) but not receiving a DHCP offer from the router/modem. So the question is, what is wrong with the network/router/moden that it will not respond to the DHCP Request?

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