Static IP addresses fail!

[don fisher]

don fisher wrote:
> 
> Stephen Kuhn wrote:
>> On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 22:23 -0700, don fisher wrote:
>>> I am currently running Ubuntu 10.10 with no end of problems. How does 
>>> one assign a static IP address. I have tried the standard network 
>>> manager and WICD, all with no success. This used to be easy 10 years 
>>> ago! In Redhat-9 you just edited the interface description files and 
>>> it was done. Now they have made it so easy I can find no options!
>>>
>>> Any help would be appreciated. Sorry for the attitude, but it has 
>>> been a long day trying to accomplish a trivial operation.
>>>
>>> Don
>>
>> It's still extremely easy to do.
>> Edit the /etc/network/interfaces file.
>>
>> http://www.liberiangeek.net/2010/09/setup-permanent-static-ip-address-ubuntu-10-0410-10-maverick-meerkat/ 
>>
>>
>>
> Attached is my /etc/network/interfaces file. Using WICD I can get either 
> port to come up using DHCP. But I cannot get eth1 or eth0 to load with a 
> static address (using WICD).
> 
> I used to use ifup and ifdown. But ifup eth1 does nothing. When I 
> execute sudo ifup eth1 I receive the output from ifconfig --help.
> 
> I must have broken something. But I cannot determine what it is. Any 
> errors in my interfaces file?
> 
> Any ideas appreciated? I was just trying to bring up Samba, which was 
> almost trivial the last time (back in the dark ages) when I tried.
> 
> don
> 
It appears my use of hwaddress is not valid.