The behaviour Wari Wahab described above is definitely a regression (and I can confirm that it works on 7.10, using nm-applet 0.6.5; and the interface is marked as static in /etc/network/interfaces) - it really needs to continue to work in 8.04.
The behaviour Wari Wahab described above is definitely a regression (and I can confirm that it works on 7.10, using nm-applet 0.6.5; and the interface is marked as static in /etc/network/ interfaces) - it really needs to continue to work in 8.04.