New 10.4 32 bit install, needs dns info

[Tom H]

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
>
> This is for the iface eth0 static
> stanza in /etc/networking/interfaces
>
> The net is working locally by hosts file translations, but the manpage for
> interfaces does not demo how a dns address is passed.
>
> And of course, /etc/resolv.conf has no data other than claims to have been
> generated by network-manager, which I'd druther not fight with when a simple
> /etc/init.d/networking start should just do it. ISTR on 6.06, I was able to
> kill NM, and then hand edit resolv.conf, then make it immutable and that was
> the end of that, but it was also 6.06 and I expect things are done
> differently now.
>
> This should come up on boot using all static addressing.

If you are not using NM, why don't you uninstall it and hand edit
/etc/network/interfaces and /etc/resolv.conf (without any need to set
immutable, etc)?