There is another report upstream that is pretty much identical but more specific to Ubuntu .
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/87941 Feisty relies on nm-applet quite a bit so hopefully this will get fixed. -- Can't use static ip address with network-manager https://launchpad.net/bugs/5364 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs