On Sun, 2008-08-10 at 00:57 -0700, Chris Maresca wrote: > All, > > First off, thanks for Barry. BB tethering was the last thing keeping me > on Windows. > > However, all is not rosy. I have a strange problem and can't figure > out where it lies. Could be Barry, but it could be somewhere, but I'll > start with Barry. > > I've installed the Barry 0.13 binary packages on a laptop running > Kubuntu 8.0.4.1
Kubuntu is probably the issue.... > > Everything seems to run fine, I backed up my BB (an 8703e running on > Sprint) and tethering works as well. Issuing pppd call barry-sprint > (either as root or as a user) results in the expected action, e.g. I > get an IP assigned from Sprint and routes/dns are updated as well. So > far so good. > > BUT, there is always a but, the DNS machines assigned by Sprint don't > work. So I changed the IPs in resolv.conf to OpenDNS, which works fine > for most command line applications. I can ping and telnet to open ports > just fine. However, no GUI app works at all. > > This would seem to point to an issue with Ubuntu's updating of various > DNS and other caches, but it could also be Barry interacting in a funny > way with Network Manager. So I have a few questions that might help > point me in the right direction: > > 1. Has anyone seen anything like this? > 2. Has anyone translated the barry ppp scripts successfully to Kppp > (which is used by Network Manager)? > 3. Does anyone have tethering on Sprint + Kubuntu 8.0.4.1 working properly? > 4. Any other ideas where I should look to trouble shoot? I've been > using Linux for around 15 years, so feel free to ask something > complicated ;-) When I was playing around with some wireless stuff, I started up some sort of KDE app that scanned for wireless access points, which did what I expected but, there is always a but :), most network related stuff stopped working. I have a somewhat less than normal setup with multiple VPN's coming and going, each with their own DNS. It turned out to be that the KDE app, while starting one of the hundreds of programs KDE seems to need to do the simplest of tasks, started some sort of DNS caching thing that screwed up most DNS lookups. Sorry I can't remember what it was called, but it was something with KDE that screwed things up. > > Thx. > > Chris. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Barry-devel mailing list > Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Barry-devel mailing list Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel
