Network anomalies since F8 install

[max bianco]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:07 AM, Simon Slater <pyevet at aapt.net.au> wrote:
>        G'day all,
>                I'm stuck again, but with my efforts fragmented over the past couple
> of weeks I'm sure I've missed something simple.  Here's the situation.
>
>        After upgrading a laptop from F7-8 the wired network connected without
> hassle.  I wanted to wipe the slate clean, however and installed F8 from
> scratch.  /etc/hosts has the other computers in the lan with 192.168.0
> IP's as it had with the upgrade.  eth0 is up but wants to use 169.254.
> IP's which I thought zeroconf setup but zeroconf is not running.
> Network manager is running (networking and wireless enabled) and reports
> connected to the wired network, network service is not running.
>
>        I cannot ping any of the 192.168.0 IP's (network unreachable) from the
> laptop, nor can I ping the 169.254 address it has taken for itself.
> Under >Places>Network there is an icon for SFTP File Transfer ( which I
> did not put there, nor can I delete it) which would connect to that box,
> until today.
>
>        How do I use the 192.168.0 range of addresses and get connected to the
> lan?
>
> Thanks
> --
> Regards
> Simon
>
169.254.*.* is assigned when a DHCP server cannot be reached.

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3330.html

Max