Bug 692676

Summary:	Cannot change from DHCP to Static IP
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Rick Leir <rredhat>
Component:	NetworkManager	Assignee:	Dan Williams <dcbw>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	rawhide	CC:	dcbw, jklimes
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2011-04-29 13:27:38 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	698379

Description Rick Leir 2011-03-31 20:10:35 UTC

Description of problem:
In the Network Settings dialog, IPv4 tab, when you try to change from DHCP to Manual for a static IP, the 'save' button is always greyed out. 

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How reproducible:
Always (I tried it twice)

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Network Settings, IPv4 tab
2.Change from DHCP to Manual
3.Try to enter a Static IP: the 'save' button stays greyed
  
Actual results:
the 'save' button stays greyed

Expected results:
the 'save' button should save the new settings

Additional info:
Workaround: I can use system-config-network to make the change without problem.  

(Is this bug actually a usability problem?)

Comment 1 Dan Williams 2011-04-05 13:51:51 UTC

What specific static IP are you entering?  You also need at least an IP and a prefix/netmask, are you entering both?

Comment 2 Rick Leir 2011-04-06 13:26:51 UTC

Hi Dan, It was likely 192.168.4.2 and I tried to enter a netmask of 255.255.255.0
When I have entered the IP I expect to be able to tab to the netmask field, but that does not work. When I click on the netmask field, the IP gets lost. Enter a netmask, then click on the Gateway field, and the netmask gets lost. Do you happen to know where the source code for this is? I can probably sort it out.

Comment 3 Dan Williams 2011-04-06 15:57:24 UTC

THis has been a problem for a while actually, but because of the way GtkTreeView works it's hard to intercept the keypresses to get the desired behavior.  THe code is:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/network-manager-applet/tree/src/connection-editor/page-ip4.c

and the functions cell_editing_started(), cell_editing_canceled(), and cell_edited() are supposed to help work around this all.

Comment 4 Jirka Klimes 2011-04-29 13:27:38 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 698199 ***