[ale] ubuntu 10.10 static ip and the woes

[Mike Harrison]

On Sat, 5 Feb 2011, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> Friends:
> I have a machine now with NOT-NETWORK access.  Here is the story.
>
> I wanted to put static ip on my MythTV Server.  I followed directions on
> this site
>
> In that site, halfway down there is a step there that says
>
> sudo apt-get purge network-manager network-manager-gnome

That was really really bad advive for a "noob".

You will want to edit, by hand:

/etc/interfaces/network

And make it look something like the example
below with your IP addresses and then reboot:


# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface
#auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
         address 10.20.0.95
         netmask 255.255.248.0
         network 10.20.0.0
         broadcast 10.20.255.255
         gateway 10.20.0.1