Ubuntu 8.10 not retaining network settings on Asus Model F3S?

I found network-manager has some bugs
I have a network issue like your and i have installed wicd to resolve it. Wicd is a different network tool.

http://wicd.sourceforge.net/ and some screenshot http://wicd.sourceforge.net/screenshot.php

How to install wicd

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:
(if the system ask you for a password give your user password, you will not see nothing when you type it, then press enter)

wget -q http://apt.wicd.net/wicd.gpg -O - | sudo apt-key add -

Add the wicd repository row to your /etc/apt/sources.list, type:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

and add this row:

deb http://apt.wicd.net intrepid extras

save close and exit. Then type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wicd
sudo killall nm-applet

To manually run the wicd-client please press Alt+F2 on an empty desktop and insert this command:

wicd-client

configure your connection. Then reboot your pc.

Hope this helps

At this point it looks successful.....I followed the steps here I was unable to run wicd-client until I first rebooted the computer.

I hope it saves the connection information...I'm running some apt-get updates now so I don't want to interrupt it.

Thanks marcobra, that solved my question.

No, not successful.....it solved the problem temporarily....when I shut the computer down and restarted it, the network connection data was still not saved even in Wicd.

How do I make Wicd save the connection information to the default state and reliably recall it on startup?

When I looked into the Advanced settings for the wired network (that's all I'm trying at this moment) I saw that the IP data I entered was still there. Yet Wicd did not act upon it, instead it just sat there and connected to nothing.

Why did that happen?

if wicd don't solve your issue and you want to restore network-manager

Open a Terminal from the menu Applications → Accessories → Terminal and type:
(if the system ask you for a password give your user password, you will not see nothing when you type it, then press enter)

sudo apt-get remove wicd
sudo apt-get install network-manager

Hope this helps

Strange but after powering down and restarting the computer a few times, now Wicd IS acting on the information I have entered for the static IP connection.

Very odd but it's working now.

So would aptoncd work in backing all of this stuff up, including this appendage called Wicd and it's key?

I'd like to back up this whole thing to a CD so if something went wrong, I wouldn't have to go through the whole lab experiment again.

I never tried aptoncd but reading http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/ notes

"APTonCD is a tool with a graphical interface which allows you to create one or more CDs or DVDs (you choose the type of media) with all of the packages you've downloaded via APT-GET or APTITUDE, creating a removable repository that you can use on other computers."

Seems it can take care of the wicd package since it was installed using the standard apt-get command.

Hope this helps