On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 01:31 -0700, UNIX admin wrote:

> e) Ubuntu kept trying to do DHCP, no matter what, in the most
> braindead way possible
> 
> f) the GUI to configure networking did not work under Ubuntu - quite
> simply, there was no effect!

These are down to NetworkManager, which is now installed by default on
Ubuntu I believe.  It has similar goals to our NWAM project, but it's
taken some flack for not interacting with the other standard networking
tools and configuration files, as you just discovered...

Cheeri,
Calum.

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