You might need to install the network manager for gnome if it's not working, although I'm not sure. Just installing gnome should install everything that gnome includes (at least, that's my experience with KDE on ArchLinux). If you can't manage to get the network manager working however, you could just configure your network via the command line.
Code:
sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
(or whatever editor you prefer)
That will bring you to a config file that looks like this:
Code:
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
Change dhcp to static and add the following:
Code:
address 192.168.3.6
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.3.255
gateway 192.168.3.1
network 192.168.3.0
dns-nameservers 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 208.67.220.222
Swap out those IP's with the ones you need (this is the config file from my server). If you're using a wireless connection I'm not sure how to do it however. You don't need to add the dns-nameservers part however unless you're using domain names to access things (so if you apt-get things you'll have to specify the mirror by IP rather than URL in the file which contains all the mirrors). I'm using OpenDNS's IP's for the name servers but you could point this at your router if your router is setup to use a DNS server (my routers are set up like that however, but I didn't think about that until now ). And if you have multiple DNS servers you're pointing at you separate them with spaces.
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