Comment 38 for bug 259214

I found that you have to delete all the auto entries, then select new connection,
give it a name and select system tab.
Then go to the IPV4 tab and
manually enter all the IP, gateway, DNS etc and click OK

Once you reboot it's all there and the LAN connects on login.

> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:02:08 +0000
> Subject: [Bug 259214] Re: wired connection settings are lost after reboot
>
> Alexander, maby this bug is fixed in latest Network Manager 0.7.0-rc1 ?
>
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/NetworkManager/0.7/
>
> Can you, please build it and upload to PPA?
>
> --
> wired connection settings are lost after reboot
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259214
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> of a duplicate bug.
>
> Status in “network-manager” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: network-manager
>
> Static IP, dns settings etc get lost after a reboot.
> It gets back to default (AUTO DHCP)
>
> Tested with latest Network Manager version from PPA

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