NETWORKING /etc/resolv.conf/ Ubuntu 10.0.4

[zongo saiba]

On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 10:54 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 05/15/2010 09:31 AM, zongo saiba wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-05-14 at 20:49 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> ...
> >> If using NM, it is probably more appropriate to make configuration
> >> changes within NM's GUI. I don't have NM installed to check this, but
> >> it must have a field for specifying DNS servers.
> >> 
> > 
> > Indeed it does. I was suffering network connection loss eventhough I had
> > configured the GUI properly. Plus the Wifi connection or card (still
> > don't know) was very talkative and was filling up my logs pretty fast.
> > Plus, my resolv.conf was being whipped clean every other time which had
> > for result to cut off my connection from the router. Since I have
> > configured (as off today) dhclient.conf (as per man page) it seems to be
> > a lot better. I have just tested the connection today only, but will
> > come back on that in a couple of days with better estimate of the
> > reliability of my connection. An interesting fact here: Before actually
> > changing the dhclient.conf file, I had changed the configuration
> > in /etc/network/interfaces which had a terrible effect on my wifi
> > connection but also on NM. NM was still running in the background but
> > not showing in the menu bar at all. I could not scan wireless networks.
> > I could only connect with ifconfig and ESSID of the network which worked
> > nicely but still needed my notebook to scan for other wireless networks
> > especially when I was on the move. Nevertheless, it seems that I slowly
> > getting back to normal with my wifi connection. 
> 
> You might try wicd instead. Note that wicd will remove NM in the
> process, so you might want to download copies of NM directly first if
> you do not have a wired connection handy:
> 
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=network-manager
> Save the .debs for both network-manager & network-manager-gnome
> 
> wicd:
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/wicd
> 
> 
> 
> 
Thank you all for your help but all is well now (touch wookd). I did try
wicd and it did not remove NM. I have both running at the same time. Of
course that caused a bit of mayhem but it was fun as once I had the
ethernet on one and the wifi on the other. I did this just to
troubleshoot and went back to NM which I do prefer over wicd. I guess NM
is more tempermental but with some tweaking, it works well.

Thank you again for all your help

Kind Regards

zongo