NETWORKING /etc/resolv.conf/ Ubuntu 10.0.4

[Tom H]

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 1:54 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> 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:

There was a recent post that said that in Lucid NM and WICD were not
set to conflict so you might need to uninstall NM and install WICD.