On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 08:07 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 17:16 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote: > > I've done that with my router at home - using DHCP to assign a > > fixed IP address. As I said, I have no problem getting IT to do this - > > I just thought Fedora 8 would work at least as well as Fedora 6 when > > this worked just fine. > > I wonder if your wireless NIC doesn't have a fixed MAC? And whether > you're identifying differently than you used to? > > If so, and your network is set to tie IPs to MACs, you wouldn't get what > you'd expect. Their DHCP server will see you as someone different, and > give you a different IP, or refuse to give you one. > > -- > (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's > important to the thread.) > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. > The major difference is that now the laptop is using Fedora 8. The laptop connects to the wireless router at home with an IP given by DHCP and it's not fixed. It doesn't use the mac of the laptop. The fixed IP are given to desktop computers, not the laptop. I checked with IT and they say they don't use the mac address. As I've said before, if I totally disable NetworkManager and nm-applet then I have no problem connecting to the wired network using the static IP. So the problem appears to be solely with NetworkManager and nm-applet. But it USED to work under Fedora 6. Rick B.
