Can't set static IP

[Buuntu]

Ugh... sometimes Linux drives me crazy.
Anyways, I've been trying to set a static IP for hours so I can have an SSH server on my computer.
I've tried everything from changing the settings in network-manager to manually editing /etc/network/interfaces.
I don't know much about networking to be honest so maybe I'm missing something.
I'm typing this from my fedora partition because I deleted network-manager and now can't get it to start up again in Ubuntu (so no internet), even though I managed to get it reinstalled from a live CD.

Anyways, if anyone can help or give ANY suggestions I'd really appreciate it. Please...

[oldfred]

You cannot use any numbers within the range auto assigned for DHCP by your router.

My router assigns 50 numbers starting at 100, so I could not use 100 or 101 even though under DHCP those were the address' normally used.

Attached are the settings I used.

[jonobr]

Hello

If you can (and you dont mind sharing) , could you post the results of ifconfig as well the results of
/etc/network/interfaces
when you changed the settings, its important to check that ifconfig shows the new ip address has taken affect.
If it has and you have say a dns issue you may think its a static IP address problem when it is not.

[Buuntu]

You cannot use any numbers within the range auto assigned for DHCP by your router.

My router assigns 50 numbers starting at 100, so I could not use 100 or 101 even though under DHCP those were the address' normally used.

Attached are the settings I used.

That's not the problem, I realized that and discovered that my router assisgns 100-200 under DHCP so I was using low numbers such as .5 or .6.


I'll post the results of ifconfig and /etc/network/interfaces tomorrow when I get on my Ubuntu partition.

By the way, I managed to get a static address to work under Fedora.

[Buuntu]

So this is the output of both commands after setting it to manual by editing connections graphically (through network-manager).

My settings are:
IP: 192.168.1.5
Mask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
DNS Servers: 24.140.1.2, 24.140.1.3

~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 04:4b:80:80:80:03  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:25 Base address:0x2000 

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:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:720 (720.0 B)  TX bytes:720 (720.0 B)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:22:3f:fd:d5:21  
          inet addr:192.168.1.5  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::222:3fff:fefd:d521/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:42 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:2069 (2.0 KB)  TX bytes:7991 (7.9 KB)

~$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

[Iowan]

You should be able to set up a static address via Network Manager, but I like to set up a static lease on my DHCP server that grants a lease based on MAC address. The machine always gets the same address, but it can be left set up as DHCP client.

[oldfred]

Is this a wireless connection? You have set up wlan0 not eth0.

[Buuntu]

Yes it's wireless.

[Buuntu]

bump

[Buuntu]

No one knows of a solution? Ugh... I guess I have to use Fedora then