Hi there! On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:09:19 +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 09.11.2008, 22:24 -0800 schrieb Praveen A: >> This is a small patch to try OpenDNS before exiting with a network >> configuration error message. I had all network configurations done for >> routing the packages correctly, but only nameserver was not configured >> correctly (you need to set nameserver every time you reboot the phone >> - I have qt extended on the NAND memory).
This is a bug, period. Please report it to the upstream Openmoko tracker and get it fixed. Maybe I sound a bit too harsh, but I would avoid any workaround whenever it is possible. FYI, I once experienced the same problem, IIRC with the Om2008.9 image. Since I tested very quickly (and anyway as soon as the Debian installation finished I flashed back the Om2007.2 one), I thought that I messed up with something. I discovered that /etc/network/interfaces did not contain anymore the following line in the usb0 stanza: up echo nameserver 192.168.0.200 >/etc/resolv.conf Which is clearly not a good default. > thanks, this is a good idea. I do not. I tried in the past to switch to OpenDNS on my laptop and the latency was horrible, even at university where I have a very fast Internet connection. Another problem with OpenDNS I found during my tests is that sites like cdn.debian.net [1] are useless. > But I don’t like how it changes /etc/resolv.conf without asking or > anything. How about this: If DNS does not work (but network does), > give a nice error message indicating this, and suggesting the user to > run "echo nameserver $OPENDNS > /etc/resolf.conf" and re-start the > installation? I do not think that the Debian install.sh script should touch the network. We should advice about having a *full* working network connection [2] and then just forget about everything. Again, I think that a bit of knowledge is required from the end-user: if we had OpenDNS to /etc/resolv.conf, then this will be propagated to the Debian installation. OTOH, if we exit with an error, maybe showing a link to a useful page, then the end-user will fix *also* the "host" distribution. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca Footnotes: [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/02/msg00700.html [2] this is how the Debian Installer (d-i) does
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