Forcing static address in 12.04

[rikona]

On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:06:48 +1000
Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

Postponed some large backups, booted 12.04 again.

> > All the GUI network tools are still missing though.

'Slightly' back-
(1) the GUI from 'system'network' now lists a wired connection
[not there before] but it is labeled 'Unmanaged' and no way to make
changes with that GUI.
(2) there is now a wireless-looking small icon top right of screen [not
like the original icon]. 'wired network' is grayed out. 'connection
info' gives err msg "no valid active connections found". 'edit
connections' box does come up, listing a wired connection that was
supposedly used 4 days ago, even though it was used just minutes ago. 

So - some GUIs are back but with wrong info and no ability to do
settings. But, maybe that's progress... :-))

> 
> Try "sudo start network-manager" and see if network manager starts.

start: Job is already running: network-manager

Nothing changed by doing this

> You may have to run nm-applet too. 

** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
^C** Message: PID 0 (we are 3063) sent signal 2, shutting down...

> However, with the right stuff
> in /etc/network/interfaces, you don't actually need Network Manager.
> 
> Please send us your current /etc/network/interfaces file, 

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.144.8
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.144.233
dns-nameservers 192.168.144.233 208.201.224.11


> and (now
> that you have access to the box) cut and paste the output from
> ifconfig as well.

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr d4:3d:.......  
          inet addr:192.168.144.8  Bcast:192.168.144.255
                 Mask:255.255.255.0 
	  inet6 addr: fe80::d63d:..../64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:10236 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4191 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:2801729 (2.8 MB)  TX bytes:846730 (846.7 KB)

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:1978 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1978 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:311630 (311.6 KB)  TX bytes:311630 (311.6 KB)

There's the stuff you requested.

Thanks again...

rikona