[patch] Patch that fixes the problem (or at least, works for me)

networkmanager-hostname.patch (text/plain), 888 bytes, created by Daniele Tamino on 2007-07-10 21:51:11 UTC

diff -ur NetworkManager-0.6.5-orig/src/backends/NetworkManagerGentoo.c NetworkManager-0.6.5/src/backends/NetworkManagerGentoo.c
--- NetworkManager-0.6.5-orig/src/backends/NetworkManagerGentoo.c	2007-07-10 14:24:10.000000000 -0700
+++ NetworkManager-0.6.5/src/backends/NetworkManagerGentoo.c	2007-07-10 14:27:06.000000000 -0700
@@ -614,6 +614,8 @@
 	val = g_hash_table_lookup(ifh, "hostname");
 	if (val)
 	{
+                if (sys_data->config == NULL)
+                    sys_data->config = nm_ip4_config_new();
 		nm_ip4_config_set_hostname(sys_data->config, val);
 	}
 	
@@ -623,7 +625,8 @@
 		/* This device does not use DHCP */
 
 		sys_data->use_dhcp=FALSE;
-		sys_data->config = nm_ip4_config_new();
+                if (sys_data->config == NULL)
+                    sys_data->config = nm_ip4_config_new();
 
 		nm_ip4_config_set_address (sys_data->config, inet_addr (val));