[Bug 9871] knetworkconf doesn't save gateway

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------- Additional Comments From nigel at rmk.co.il  2005-10-29 18:53 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #4)
> Network setting problem in kubuntu breezy using static adresses
> If you set up the network settings properly on installation you will not notice,
> but if you try to change network settings from Network Settings on the KDE
> desktop, you find the window too big or cut off at the bottom and you cannot get
> to the “administrator” button to make admin access. Sometimes you can get the
> bottom edge of it, but when entering the password it will accept without giving
> you access. If you run sudo kcontrol you can get in as administrator, but then
> if you try to change anything you will find that you can enter the gateway ip,
> but it will disappear once you go out of the window. It can only then be set
> with console command sudo route add default gw 192.168.0.1 This then has to be
> done everytime you reboot. To overcome this go to /etc/network/interfaces and
> edit by adding the line gateway 192.168.0.1 under the address, netmask, network
> and broadcast ip list. It seems as if this problem is not understood or not seen
> as a problem as it was present in hoary as well and there are quite a few
> threads on this. This is a serious problem and needs to be logged as a bug again.

I searched for this bug on bugzilla but didn't find it so logged it as a
[duplicate] bug (#18637) today.

BTW. You can always hold the Alt key and move a window by dragging the mouse (to
get to an inacessable part of the gui window.

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