I have installed network-manager and knetworkmanager applet in a laptop running kubuntu edgy, since I needed a network switching tool to use when I am at home and at university, where I use different network settings. But I couldn't get it to work as I would like. Let's consider only the wired connection, to keep things simple. As long I have dhcp enabled in my dsl router (what I don't want), everything is fine, (k)networkmanager connects to it and gets the address. But if I disable dhcp, then (k)networkmanager gets stuck: it tries to connect to the router for a while, and after that it brings up eth0 with ip address 169.254.141.132, that really does not make sense in my case, since the ip address of my router is 192.168.1.1 I would like to have 192.168.1.3 as fixed ip address for my ethernet card, but I couldn't find any way to obtain it through (k)networkmanager.
So what? Am I doing something wrong? Is (k)networkmanager supposed to work only with dhcp? Is this a only kde-related issue and in Gnome everything works? Thanks for any help _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
