Ubuntu
network-manager package

  1. Bug #256054
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 256054

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 256054] Re: [intrepid] new 0.7 branch ignores /etc/network/interfaces

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:14:02AM -0000, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
> I'm willing to add confirmed here, too. I filed another report on this,
> and the answer appears to be to unstall Network Manager. After doing
> that, I can get online with my static IP address. It's working so far.
>
> This after using static IP since Ubuntu 5.10.
>
> I removed all four files after searching in Synaptic Package Manager for
> Network Manager. That seems to allow you to use /etc/network/interfaces
> again.
>

You could try the experiemental ifupdown plugin. just append ,ifupdown
to the plugins= line in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf
and restart your system.

This should NM honour not-too-fancy /etc/network/interfaces
configurations.

 - Alexander