Re: [Hampshire] natty - 2 weird things

On 11/09/11 16:46, Rob Malpass wrote:

>
> 2) Far more serious - I'm making changes to the network configuration (I
> want a static ip address and its default is dhcp) using network
> connections on the system menu and either
>
> 2a) It's disregarding the changes I make i.e. I change the ip address,
> then I
>
> do a ifconfig or cat /etc/resolv.conf and see no changes!
>
> 2b) I give it perfectly acceptable ip address, subnet mask, gateway and
>
> it still can't find the network.
>
> It's probably something obvious - so as I say - apologies if so - but if
> anyone can point me in the right direction I'd be grateful.
>

Apologies if you've tried this, but did you disconnect and then
reconnect the network after you'd made your changes? I've found that
just doing Edit and then Apply does nothing. I always then have to
disconnect and reconnect for any changes to take effect.

Leo