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gert ormel
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wireless issues

My HP nc6220 with SuSE 10.0 seems to have wireless problems:

the wireless card (an IntelPro 2915abg) seems
to be configured properly when looking at the /etc/sysconfig/network file.
SuSE come's with the proper firmware and driver, the card does get an IP/MAC address with dhcpcd -d, Kinternet shows good signal strength, but I'm not getting a DNS entry in the the resolv conf.
Shutting down the firewall doesn't make any difference either.

Anyone with suggestions?

Thanks,

Gert

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Steven E. Protter
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Re: wireless issues

Shalom Gert,

While connected, see if you can ping the addresses in /etc/resolv.conf

In a dhcp situation, Linux likes to update the /etc/resolv.conf file and in a wireless environment where there are many access points sometimes gets it wrong.

Check the time and date stamp on /etc/resolv.conf and also see if the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf are consistent.

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Alexander Chuzhoy
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Re: wireless issues

check the network configuration file.
If there's a line PEERDNS=no. If so change it to PEERDNS=yes.
First statement prevents from DHCP to update the /etc/resolv.conf file