9.04 desktop, static IP address configuration fails

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Fri, 6/26/09, Steve Reilly <sfreilly at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> From: Steve Reilly <sfreilly at roadrunner.com>
> Subject: Re: 9.04 desktop, static IP address configuration fails
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Friday, June 26, 2009, 6:55 PM
> bill wrote:
> > when I go preferences > network connection
> > and change it from DHCP to manual and add a connection
> I can enter the
> > IP address (192.168.0.101) and the subnet mask
> (255.255.255.0) and
> > gateway (192.168.0.20), but when I click apply it
> changes the gateway
> > back to 0.0.0.0.
> > I decided to do it manually and opened
> /etc/network/interfaces, and
> > found it only had two lines in it, with none of the
> addressing
> > information as it does on the server version.
> > 
> > 1) anyone have an idea as to why it will not accept
> and keep the gateway
> > address, and
> > 2) where is the data kept ?
> > 
> 
> i believe theres still a bug with static ip's in
> network-manager at
> least there was in intrepid.  wait for someone else to
> verify this but
> removing network-manager and installing wicd should do the
> trick.  been
> a while since i did it cant remember exactly if thats what
> i did.....
> 
Do; 
sudo aptitude install wicd

It will automagically remove network-manager.  For most people it just works but
you may have to open the aplet and set up you static IP.
 

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net