wireless lan & resolv.con

[Rodney D. Myers]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:49:21 -0500
"Michael W. Holdeman" <lists at ptfd.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday 29 November 2006 13:50, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> > running Kubuntu Edgy, on an HP Pavilion dv5000z (AMD)
> >
> > Finally go the broadcom wifi card to work (YEAH).
> >
> > The problem, when using dhcp, some program writes the /etc/resolv.conf
> > incorrectly.
> >
> > correct:
> > nameserver 192.168.1.1
> > nameserver 4.2.2.1
> >
> > the way it is written:
> > nameserver 1.192.168.1
> > nameserver 4.2.2.1
> >
> > even with this reolv.conf, I can work on my local lan, but cannot get
> > out to the internet.
> > Secondly. I get one shot at starting the network card, via
> > KNetworkManager (the only program I found that finds & semi-connects
> > to my wireless network). If I shut it down for any reason, a reboot
> > (log off/log on won;'t work) is required to connect again.
> >
> > Not sure if they are related. so any ideas as to fixing these, or working
> > around these problem?
> >
> > 
> 
> Off topic, what driver are you using for your broadcom card?
> 
> Mike
> 

Not off-topic ;-)

When it semi-works, what 'bcm43xx-firmware' installs

Since I wrote the first email, I rebooted to make sure things worked.
BZZZT not working right now. will try later when I don't want to break
the computer

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