On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 13:41 -0500, Rick Bilonick wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 15:46 +0000, Ian Malone wrote: > > On 17/01/2008, Rick Bilonick <rab@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 11:24 +0000, Ian Malone wrote: > > > > (I did open the network properties and check the new option allowing > > > > NM to manage the connection for the ethernet interface.) > > > > > > > > > > > > Where does one "open the network properties"? I've been looking for > > > config files but I haven't found anything that I could understand. There > > > is nothing under /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d. There were xml files > > > in .gconf but I couldn't recognize much. > > > > > > > System|Administration|Network a.k.a. /usr/bin/system-config-network > > Devices tab, select the appropriate device, click edit. The devices > > properties typically affect /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. I see that > > the NM check-box corresponds to a new variable in ifcfg-xxxx: > > NM_CONTROLLED. > > > > -- > > imalone > > > > I must not have noticed when the nm button was added (pays to look > carefully!). Thanks. I'll see if this fixes the problem of nm not > connecting with the static IP address (as did under Fedora 6). > > Rick B. > i According to Dan Williams the head of the NM project NM does not work with static ips . That is a change coming in NM-0.7 -- ======================================================================= Mundus vult decipi decipiatur ergo. -- Xaviera Hollander [The world wants to be cheated, so cheat.] ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx