F8: NetworkManager + Static IP +Wifi

[Simon Andrews]

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.