I'm willing to add confirmed here, too. I filed another report on this, and the answer appears to be to unstall Network Manager. After doing that, I can get online with my static IP address. It's working so far.
This after using static IP since Ubuntu 5.10. I removed all four files after searching in Synaptic Package Manager for Network Manager. That seems to allow you to use /etc/network/interfaces again. -- [intrepid] new 0.7 branch ignores /etc/network/interfaces https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/256054 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs