Re: Switch to running PPPoE

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 13:12 -0400, Matt Burkhardt wrote:
> I'm running nm-applet 0.6.5 with a wireless card and router.  I
> recently had to change ISP's and they had me change the way my router
> was working from Automatic Configuration - DHCP to PPPoE.
> 
> I realized that I wasn't connecting to the router with my server
> anymore, (I'm running Xfce to make life easier) so I changed nm to
> allow for roaming - everything works great.  But I would like to have
> that machine with a static IP address so I can do some port forwarding
> through the router.
> 
> So I click on the icon, select Manual configuration, and select
> Wireless, go into the properties and turn off roaming, select the
> ESSID from the drop-down, select WPA Personal as the security, enter
> the password, select Static IP address under the Configuration
> options, give it an address of 192.168.1.200, give the netmask as
> 255.255.255.0 and the gateway address as 192.168.1.1 - and nothing.
> Even rebooted with the new settings.
> 
> I can, however, browse the machine with other computers on my network.
> 
> Any ideas on where to look?

Probably better to try on Ubuntu lists, since the Roaming/Manual mode
stuff is an Ubuntu-specific patch to NetworkManager.  When set to Manual
you're using the Ubuntu network config tools to set up the card.

Dan