On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 14:54 -0400, .. ink .. wrote: > i have looked for an official area to report bugs but couldnt find any > and hence i decided to report it here. Can somebody point me to a bug > tracker for this project? I use kde and i am aware of bugs.kde.org but > not gnome's equivalent. > > > There seem to be a bug somewhere on how NM accepts and handles a wish > to use static ip address since the problem appear on both nm-applet > and knetworkmanager-kde4 > > > using NM 0.8 and both nm-applet and knetworkmanager show the same > problem. They both do not seem to pass a wish and settings to use a > static ip address with a connection and hence they always use a > dynamic one offered by dhcp
Are you using nm-connection-editor or the KDE equivalent to enter the static IP address in to the IPv4 configuration section? Can you describe the specific steps you're taking that show the problem? Dan > > The only way to use a static ip is to set one in > "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcg-wlan0" config file and > nm-applet/knetworkmanager will use the info there when a connection is > set to use a static ip. > > > This creates problems because there is only one "ifcfg-wlan0" config > file and hence i cant set different connections to use different > static ip addresses. > > > the config file has the following info at the moment > DEVICE=wlan0 > BOOTPROTO=static > IPADDR=192.168.0.20 > NETMASK=255.255.255.0 > GATEWAY=192.168.0.1 > ONBOOT=yes > METRIC=35 > MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no > USERCTL=yes > DNS1=<removed> > DNS2=<removed> > RESOLV_MODS=no > IPV6INIT=no > IPV6TO4INIT=no > ACCOUNTING=yes > > > > i am using pclinuxos2010 > > _______________________________________________ > networkmanager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
