Graphics configuration to configure a static address for my wired connection

[Billie Walsh]

On 09/30/2010 03:12 PM, Christophe Guilbert 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
>
>    


Do I have it wrong that if you go to System Settings > Network Settings 
 > Network Connections > Add you can set up your connection with a fixed 
address?

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