On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 16:30 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Frank Cox wrote: > > On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:33:21 -0400 > > "Kevin J. Cummings" <cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> *OR* you tell your laptop to *NOT* use DHCP for the ethernet interface, > >> and configure your static address using system-config-network. > > > > I think you would then lose the benefit of using Network Manager. It's easiest > > (in my opinion) to let Network Manager handle all network connections on a > > laptop that moves around from place to place. > > > >> This may > >> ultimately involve using some sort of network profiles if your static > >> address at home differs from your static address at work. > > > > Again, Network Manager will do all of the dirty work for you, if you just set > > up your dhcp server to provide a static address to your machine if it's > > required. > > > Frank, unless I totally misread the the original post, there is no "your > dhcp server" to configure to anything, he has been told to use a static > IP address. That means his computer doesn't ask for an IP, it uses the > same IP all the time. > > I found that it is possible to remove the NM software and own your > computer again. Then you use one script to start using DHCP and one for > each static IP you use (I never had more than two). > > I also have a script to start the WiFi NIC, which so far is always DHCP. > > NM is one of those things which works really well as long as you > structure your computer use to do things the way it wants (sounds like > Windows, doesn't it). When you do something out of the ordinary it's > often easier to do it manually. > > Using a laptop as an AP to a wired network connection comes to mind as > another one of the things which is easier to do by hand, using familiar > tools. I'm unconvinced that you can get NM to do it at all, but I make > no pretense of being an expert in NM guru-level configuration. > > -- > Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> > "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from > the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot > I had no problems automatically connecting to the wired network at the office and the wireless network at home using NetworkManager and nm-applet under Fedora 6. Rick B.
