Comment 79 for bug 256054

No I use a desktop edition as a server, because I need it as a station too. It worked like this for years, that an old dual athlon MP server. So no, I do not use server edition, I have the GUI, it is just on 24/7 on a ups...
Here is my problem:
I installed cleanly a brand new intrepid by keeping my /home from hardy. First boot I noticed that it was dhcp, so I started to change ip settings (using system - preferences - network config.) but after every boot it went back to dhcp. Then I foud out that /etc/network/interfaces was empty (only loopback setup) so I edit it... after restarting the service, no internet ! after reboot no internet ! I try to remove NetworkManager from rc.d, no luck, so I restore defaults in rc.d, I commented all I added in interfaces, and I'm back to dhcp. So no progress at all. So no this bug is not fixed, at least not for me and of it is not for me it is not for a lot of people.

# lspci
02:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
02:07.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys Gigabit Network Adapter (rev 12)