I reserved a small range of IP addresses for my laptops, and let friends' get their addresses from DHCP. I configured WICD to pick specific IP addresses when on the home network, but wanted to leave them open to dynamic addresses on other networks. Now, all but one of the laptops work as intended—all except the one I use most often.

It's not a big deal, but a minor inconvenience. It doesn't obtain the IP address I designated for it automatically at startup. It's supposed to be 192.168.1.2, but it's almost always 15 (unless a foreign computer already has that address). If I disconnect and reconnect, it becomes 2, but never on startup.

Any ideas?

Ubuntu 8.04
kernel: 2.6.24-26-generic
Gnome 2.22.3

Did you configured the static ip in wicd ?

Oh, yeah. Even when it's set at 15, I can go into the properties for the connection and see "192.168.1.2" staring back at me, and, yes, the box for "use static IP" is checked.

Like I said, if I reconnect the connection, it works, but not at startup.

Because DHCP daemon stars at boot time and gets that ip for you.

I don't want to disable that, but can I delay it or move it's loading after WICD?

Or does WICD perform the same function as that daemon? Can I disable the DHCP daemon and have WICD still dynamically get addresses from networks other than my home?

Try to disable DHCP on boot time, WICD will activate dhcp later

You know, may be it is not dhcp starts at boot time, but interface activates at the boot time and therefore dhcp gives it IP address. Check it. I'm not sure.
Check network configuration setting - should be plenty options about dhcp and interface activation.

May be someone from the forum correct me.

The only option I can really find is to disable the call to dhclient in WICD's setup, but that's a global thing. I wish it was just for individual networks. Since it's almost always 15, I'm thinking of reserving that number for this computer, setting that in WICD just to be sure, updating all the references to this computer's IP, and pretending it works correctly. It may always bother me that I can't do it right, but I can't find any other way.

Should be an option how interface is activated: at boot time, manualy, hot plug ....
And as well an option - enable/disable dhsp.
Also check if your interfaces are configured at boot time.

If you use network manager (WICD) - you really do not need it to be activated since boot time.