On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 17:16 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote: > > Yes, 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. Fixed-IP capability will be in NM 0.7 soon, but meanwhile, my workaround suggestion would be to turn off NM (right-click the applet and uncheck "enable networking"), then use System -> Administration -> Network or Network Device Control (or ifup/ifdown) to connect to your static IP. > > Rick B. > > -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Mathematical Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs