Re: NetworkManager and fixed config at home

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

On 10/24/07, Facundo Batista <facundobatista gmail com> wrote:
> Network Manager is great.
>
> I have a laptop, and the functionality of going everywhere and NM to
> know if I was there before and connect me is marvelous
>
> But, the other day I needed to configure it in one way, and I couldn't
> do it. So this mail is to ask you *how* to do it.
>
> Almost everywhere I want Network Manager to work as it works. But at
> home, when it detects *my* wifi essid, I want NOT to make dhcp, but to
> put a fixed IP, Gw, DNS, etc.
>
> The problem I have is that to configure it, I need to take out eth1
> from "roaming" mode, and nows NM does not work exactly as before,
> which was ok.
>
> So, to clarify the mail:
>
> Nows:
>
>   1. It detects where I am
>   2. Connects to where corresponds
>   3. Use DHCP to configure the network
>
> But I want to:
>
>   1. It detects where I am
>   2. Connects to where corresponds
>   3. If it is *my* essid, use a manual config, else use DHCP to
> configure the network
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> .    Facundo
>
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Unfortunately that is not an option with 0.6.5 but will be in 0.7.0
which is the next major release.   Supposedly the version in SVN has
made some significant progress but I am not sure if it is ready for
use yet...