On Jan 21, 2008 2:30 PM, Tyrion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyway, I'm a long time linux user, but was out of touch with computers
> in general for about 4 years and am just getting back into the swing.
Welcome back.
> First, I'm using Ubuntu on a laptop, works pretty well, I have WIFI
> connecting to a shared access point. The problem is with the name server
> info dished out by the dhcp. I always get a resolv.conf that just has
> the address of the router instead of actual nameservers, this sounds ok,
> but apparently the router is not set up to do dns so I get nothing. My
> heavy handed fix was to create my own resolve.conf and have cron copy it
> to /etc every couple of minutes. This seems less than optimal. Is there
> a way to tell dhclient not to get nameserver info?
I found the following by Googling "dhclient resolv.conf"
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=7239
> Another issue that I'm having is that the computer will occasionally
> busy itself by writing to the hard drive. I have no idea what is doing
> the disk access, because I can't even get it to switch to a terminal
> until it's finished its work. It reminds me of doing updatedb but with
> niceness turned way off, the computer is basically useless until it
> finishes what it's doing. Any clues? I turned off beagle indexing (took
> up waaay too much disk space) so that's not it. I'm usually running
> firefox and sometimes thunderbird and xchat.
Maybe load up 'top' and see if you can catch it in action. To find
out what process it is, I mean.
-todd
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