ethernet connections in Karmic - how do I tame network manager?

[Lisi Reisz]

2009/12/2 Reinhold Rumberger <rrumberger at web.de>:
> On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Lisi Reisz wrote:
>> results of dhclient:
[snip]
>
> Obviously you need to try as root - 'sudo dhclient' :-)

Doh!  Obviously I am getting too bogged down in this. :-(

root at Paul:~# dhclient
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.2
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:18:f3:c6:6f:80
Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:18:f3:c6:6f:80
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.2 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPNAK from 192.168.1.1
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPOFFER of 192.168.1.31 from 192.168.1.1
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.31 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK of 192.168.1.31 from 192.168.1.1
bound to 192.168.1.31 -- renewal in 1599 seconds.
root at Paul:~#