On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 13:12 -0400, Matt Burkhardt wrote: > I'm running nm-applet 0.6.5 with a wireless card and router. I > recently had to change ISP's and they had me change the way my router > was working from Automatic Configuration - DHCP to PPPoE. > > I realized that I wasn't connecting to the router with my server > anymore, (I'm running Xfce to make life easier) so I changed nm to > allow for roaming - everything works great. But I would like to have > that machine with a static IP address so I can do some port forwarding > through the router. > > So I click on the icon, select Manual configuration, and select > Wireless, go into the properties and turn off roaming, select the > ESSID from the drop-down, select WPA Personal as the security, enter > the password, select Static IP address under the Configuration > options, give it an address of 192.168.1.200, give the netmask as > 255.255.255.0 and the gateway address as 192.168.1.1 - and nothing. > Even rebooted with the new settings. > > I can, however, browse the machine with other computers on my network. > > Any ideas on where to look?
Probably better to try on Ubuntu lists, since the Roaming/Manual mode stuff is an Ubuntu-specific patch to NetworkManager. When set to Manual you're using the Ubuntu network config tools to set up the card. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
