Re: NM and wired connections

[Ryan Novosielski <novosirj umdnj edu>]

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Peter Flynn wrote:
> If I pull out my PCMCIA wireless card and plug in a standard RJ45 
> connection, nm-applet correctly notices and tries to switch.
> 
> But it has no setup for a wired connection, so it goes looking for DHCP, 
> which we don't have on the wired network. I have an IP address for  use 
> on this laptop, but how do I tell NM to use it?

>From what I'm told, if you manually set the IP address through the
operating system, Network Manager will use it. There is currently no
static IP support beyond that. To confirm this, check the mailing list
archives. Since I joined, this has been asked more than once (and I
joined about a week ago).

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