Ubuntu
network-manager package

  1. Bug #5364
  2. Comment #60

Comment 60 for bug 5364

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Wari Wahab (wari) wrote :

Craig: I setup static IP using the nm-applet, not by editing the /etc/network/interfaces by hand. In 8.04, it disables networking entirely until I updated network-manager package. Still, apps like firefox, and nm-applet reports that I have no working network.

Now if I just installed ubuntu, and logged in, and have to configure static IP without changing config files, I would use "System" -> "Administration" -> "Network" to configure IP. Now if you say that the app does not support static IP, when why do I have the ability to configure it in the first place?

I don't need VPN (yet) and I don't need wireless at all. I used a standalone server/desktop and is not a roaming user.

TomasHnyk: My router is ISP provided and does not have the ability to bind an IP to a specific MAC address.

ekingery: Network Manager has many bugs throughout many distributions, all different. But his one in ubuntu is the most crippling in my use case scenario.