Linksys USB wireless NIC and resolv.conf

[Carl Karsten]

Robert Slade wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 11:10 -0600, William Stephens wrote:
> 
>>On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 03:39 +1100, Peter Garrett wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 10:25:26 -0600
>>>Chris <racerx at makeworld.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>William Stephens wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>>I'm still tinkering with my USB wireless NIC. A major problem I have
>>>>>found is that whenever I reboot my file /etc/resolv.conf is cleared out.
>>>>>I'm a linux newbie so I'm sure its something simple.
>>>>>
>>>>>William S.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>man resolv.conf
>>>>man dhclient
>>>
>>>Chris, the guy is a self confessed newbie, and you are telling him to read
>>>the manual pages ? Seriously, please don't give these kinds of responses -
>>>they aren't helpful, or welcoming.
>>>
>>>William, I'm sorry I personally don't know the answer to your
>>>question - but please don't be put off by this kind of curt answer.
>>>Someone else will no doubt try to help you.
>>>
>>>Sincerely,
>>>
>>>Peter
>>>
>>
>>Thanks Peter,
>>
>>I'm not afraid of man pages and really I know the options for
>>resolv.conf its the fact that something is cleaning it out while booting
>>and I don't know what. 
>>
>>William S.
> 
> 
> William,
> 
> As I understand it, during the boot process, dhclient obtains data from
> the dhcp server and uses the info obtained to setup the resov.conf. I am
> assuming that the machine with the wirless nic is getting a lease from a
> dhcp server somewhere on your network.
> 
> Now /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf allows some setting to be preset and
> overwrite the data obtained in the lease. Have a look at preapend etc.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Rob
> 
> 

Rob has the right answer, assuming we both understand the question.  man 
dhclient.conf for details.

You can also set some things in /etc/network/interfaces, but looking at man 
interfaces I don't see anything about setting nameservers.

^CarlFK