Forcing static address in 12.04

[rikona]

Hello Karl,

Sunday, June 7, 2015, 6:07:32 PM, Karl wrote:

> On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 10:47 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
>> On Sun, 2015-06-07 at 15:30 -0700, rikona wrote:
>> > I had to replace a failed router in the lan, and needed to temporarily
>> > set a 12.04 box to dhcp. It had a fixed IP since installation. After
>> > the router was configured, I tried to set it back to fixed, but can't.
>> In /etc/network/interfaces, put something like this:
>> auto eth0
>> iface eth0 inet static
>>    address 192.168.1.99
>>    netmask 255.255.255.0
>>    gateway 192.168.1.1
>>    dns-nameservers 192.168.1.35

> In case it wasn't obvious, you should use values in there that make
> sense for your network. The above values are just examples.

I did put in the right info...

After blow up, I can't seem to get to anything that will let me see,
set up, or modify anything re the network; network-manager is
supposedly installed, seems to be in init.d.

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 rikona