Graphics configuration to configure a static address for my, wired connection (Christophe Guilbert)

[Brian Wootton]

On 03/10/10 15:27, kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
> One of the first things I do after installing a distro is give the 
> network a static address (to fit nicely in my network). When starting 
> the Knetwork configuration manager I was looking for my wired 
> connection – and it just was not there! Using the graphics 
> configuration to configure a static address for my wired connection is 
> simply impossible.
> Googling this issues shows that the bug has been addressed but never 
> corrected. I could not see any alternative to setup a static IP in the 
> kubuntu documentation
>
> Sure I can use a terminal and change the setting by myself. To tell 
> you the truth it could just turn away people from using KDE.
> This is a basic thing you should be able to do without googling it, 
> like we use to do under KDE3.
> I spent more than 10 years with KDE, I did convert more than 20 people 
> to use linux/kde as their only OS. I am really thinking of moving to a 
> different desktop now.
> KDE4 is just a beautiful (if not the most beautiful desktop out 
> there), but for me , functionality prime over beauty . it is totally 
> useless if you constantly need to google to do things that are as 
> basic as setting a static IP address. why this problem has not been 
> corrected since kubuntu 10.04 came out ?
>
> Maybe I miss something here , do you know how to do it under knetwork 
> (which is the network manager installed by default)
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Chris 
I'm running kubuntu 10.04.1, all my ip addresses are static.
I invented my own /etc/hosts, installed it on all machines
and then used KNetworkManager where necessary using
the manual setup - works fine - has done for years. Not
forgetting the router of course, have to make sure it
agrees with your /etc/hosts. One of my machines is running
wince 7 and even it seems to be happy.
brian