Wireless newbies -- just try NetworkManager!

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Thu Mar 13 07:04:10 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 23:50 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
> As far as I understand the comments from other people, NM does not
> work with static assigned IP numbers and it may/will wreck settings in
> /etc/resolv.conf.  That is a bit of a problem, and I think the only
> thing to do is to use the nm-applet to turn off its networking
> activity, and then use the old fashioned way to activate the static ip
> (use system-config-network). 

I wonder if people having those sorts of problems would benefit from
customising their DHCP client configuration, giving some static
addresses as fallback defaults for when a DHCP server doesn't configure
your network for you.

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