Gnome Network-Admin Applet

[Lorin Pino]

Adil Hindistan wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I've manually changed my IP address from dynamic to static as I
>described here:
>http://sc0ri0n.blogspot.com/2006/08/configuring-ip-address-in-ubuntu.html
>
>I have no problem connecting to internet or other boxes on my LAN but I
>am quite annoyed that the network icon on the upper right corner shows a
>little red exclamation sign and when hovered it reads "No network
>connection".
>
>Any ideas why?
>
>Thanks,
>Adil
>
>
>  
>
I don't know for sure, but if you click on that can you get a menu?  If 
so, then under properties there may be an option for which interface to 
watch.  On my machine, the network monitor can be set to watch eth0 or lo.
HTH
~Lorin