How about using wicd as an alternate network manager ? Also see this page.
http://shibuvarkala.blogspot.com/2008/12/howto-solve-static-ip-problem-in-ubuntu.html Sunil On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Syam Krishnan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Visakh wrote: > > Hi, > > Thanks for your help, but I am aware of the command line and > > configuration file ways of setting up Static IPs. But that is counter- > > intuitive when network manager is available. I searched far and wide > > for a way of setting up static IPs using network manager, but all I > > could find were recommendations to uninstall it before following the > > methods you suggested. It seemed like a bug back when NM 0.7 was > > introduced in Ubuntu- but it is surprising that this problem still > > persists even after a full year. So I was wondering if I was missing > In Fedora, in the 'Network configuration' utility, you can set a static > IP for an interface, and then deselect the 'Controlled by > NetworkManager' option. > See if you have something similar. > > Syam > > > > -- Sunil T T Assistant Professor Dept. of Electronics College of Engineering Attingal Pin 695 101 http://brainstorms.in --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
