Hello all, I'm a new user of ArchLinux, so far installed on two machines (more wil follow). Coming from first Suse and then Fedora it was a big change, but I learned a lot in the process and have the nice feeling to be back in control of my machines (they also lost some weight). The one remaining problem is with netcfg 2.2.1. On my laptop I have the drivers e1000 and ipw2200 loaded in rc.conf, providing the devices eth0 and eth1 in fixed order. For the first I use: CONNECTION="ethernet-iproute" DESCRIPTION="Local ethernet - zita1 router" INTERFACE="eth0" IP="static" ADDR="192.168.2.241" GATEWAY="192.168.2.240" and this works nicely. The only strange thing is that it fails when the interface is not connected. I've never seen this on the systems I used before, and since you can disconnect the network cable and put it back without any ill effect on the interface configuration I'd really expect it to be configured as well if the physical connection is not present. For the wireless connection all the examples use dhcp but I need a fixed address. Combining the examples I arrived at: CONNECTION="wireless" DESCRIPTION="Wireless connection at Basilicanova" INTERFACE="eth1" SECURITY="wep" ESSID="lovettanet" KEY="........" IP="static" ADDR=192.168.1.241 GATEWAY="192.168.1.1" which fails with: lovetta up SIOCADDRT: No such process Adding gateway failed. After some experimentation I found that the following works: CONNECTION="wireless" DESCRIPTION="Wireless connection at Basilicanova" INTERFACE="eth1" SECURITY="wep" ESSID="lovettanet" KEY="........" IP="static" POST_UP="ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.241; route add default gw 192.168.1.1" But it doesn't feel right. Am I missing something obvious ? Many thanks, -- FA