Current problems with Rawhide

[Dan Williams]

On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 11:58 -0400, Kelly Miller wrote:
> 
>         We're "fixing" this by making the knetworkmanager package load
>         up the
>         GNOME applet for F8 final.  When the K version is fixed, we'll
>         remove
>         the hack and the GNOME dependencies in an F8 update.
> 
> Yeah, I didn't think anyone would miss that problem.  I still don't
> entirely understand why NetworkManager itself (nm-applet) is screwing
> up my IP, though. 
> 
> I set it to give me a standard IP of 192.168.2.4 on my network all the
> time, because my computer acts as an LDAP/NFS server for the rest of
> the computers on the network.  However, when I activate
> NetworkManager, my IP becomes 192.168.2.5.  When I turn it off and use
> the old networking system, I get the IP I asked for.

How are you telling NM to do this?

Dan