F8: NetworkManager + Static IP +Wifi

[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 12:14 +0000, Simon Andrews wrote:
> Fujisan wrote:
> > I upgraded from F7 to F8 recently and I noticed some changes in the 
> > behaviour of NetworkManager.
> > While I did not have this problem in F7, in F8 NM cannot find my static 
> > IP address and finds one by DHCP which is 169.254.59.61 
> > <http://169.254.59.61>.
> 
> The version of Network Manager in the F8 release doesn't yet support 
> static IP addresses.  I believe this is being actively worked on and a 
> fix which includes this functionality is likely to be put out as a F8 
> update in the near future:
> 
> http://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=46985&start=0
> 
> Simon.
> 
The F7 version of NM 0.6.5 did not support static addresses either so I
am little mystified by the statement made above by the OP.
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