Dear Ludwig,
Please forgive me to remind here, since I do not know you, that
wvdial/wdialconf are not programs that operate the communication but
rather friendly utilities that prepare the parameters (data) for the
real program which does the work, pppd.
Now please can you tell us if there is or not a line usepeerdns in
your file /etc/ppp/options
If there is not, please add that line.
Then please try to connect to your analog modem ISP with wvdial and Auto
DNS = yes, do not worry for what there is or not in /etc/resolv.conf
because in this case pppd should NOT use /etc/resolv.conf, disconnect
the cable from DSL to PC to make sure that you use the analog modem, and
try to surf the Web, like Google or others. Does it work?
If it works (it should), reconnect your DSL, make it work by adding the
DSL DNS in /etc/resolv.conf if necessary (see Note) and give the
following commands in a separate window as superuser (the first takes
time), while wvdial (pppd) is still running: updatedb ,then this long
composite command for f in `locate resolv.conf* `;do echo $f;cat
$f;done so that you can see the contents of the various
resolv.conf present on your computer.
Note: if your DSL box is not old, and I am sure you were given a brand
new one since DSL is new in your place, configure your PC (Linux) for
the DSL connection to take DNS's from the DSL box (do not define
/etc/resolv.conf and make it clear in the network s\manager
definitions, no local name server, no local DNS). Your DSL box normally
comes configured such that the DSL box takes itself automatically the
DNS addresses from the network. You may want,and even need, to check
that your DSL box is configured like that. That way you should not hear
of DNS's any more once you have usepeerdns in your /etc/ppp/options .
Regards
Jacques
n 02/29/012 02:00 PM, Ludwig Gebauer wroteresolv.conf
With "Auto DNS = yes" in wvdial.conf, DNS addresses show up in the
wvdial protocol, when running wvdial (ISP: www.yooline.de ), whether
network manager is activated or not. wi And whether network manager is
activated or not, I have to edit resolv.conf manually. Since a few
weeks, DSL exists here in my village, 12 km afar from Brunswick (so much
about the highly industrialisated etc. country Germany), and with my DSL
_modem_ (not a modem _router_!) I have the same effect: DNS addresses
must be transferred manually to resolv.conf. Seems to be an openSUSE
11.4 issue.
