Forcing static address in 12.04

[rikona]

Hello Linda,

Tuesday, June 9, 2015, 1:46:22 PM, Linda wrote:

> On 06/09/2015 01:53 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 9 June 2015 at 17:29, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
>>> ..
>>> The real answer is I don't know the underlying pgm name that produces
>>> the GUI windows I use to set up the network. If I did know I WOULD
>>> tell you. I click on an icon, a window pops up titled 'network' or
>>> 'network [something]'. There is NOTHING there that indicates the
>>> underlying pgm name; there is no 'about' to give additional guidance.
>>> I guessed you would think it stupid if I said I used the 'network'
>>> pgm, so I didn't do that.
>> Do you mean you click on the network icon in the top panel and then
>> click Edit Connections?  If not then exactly what do you do?  However
>> I guess this is not relevant at the moment as you have no network icon
>> in the top panel.
>>
>> Does the network icon appear if you type, in a terminal
>> nm-applet
>>
>> Colin
>>

> Does your machine have a /etc/network/interfaces  file?

Yes.

> For Ubuntu 10 I had to remove network manager

Is there a conflict between NM and a file as you show below?

> and set the
> information in the file by hand it  looked like this
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
> address XXX.XXX.X.X
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> gateway XXX.XXX.X.XX

> If the file exists you might try filling in the values and see if
> when you reboot it can find the network.

I tried that, still can't find a network - hangs at boot a long time
trying, then finally boots with no network stuff at all.

Thanks for the help..

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 rikona