NETWORKING /etc/resolv.conf/ Ubuntu 10.0.4

[NoOp]

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