[Techtalk] DNS problem with wireles internet

[David Sumbler]

Further to my earlier message (below), I have discovered that if I log
in as root, I can get internet access.  But when logged in as a normal
user, I can't.

And I still can't figure out the answer, though!

David



On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 23:44 +0100, David Sumbler wrote:
> I have just received a new psiXpda computer - a sort of hand-held PC.
> The makers offer it with Windows XP or Ubuntu 9.04; needless to say, I
> chose the latter.
> 
> The problem I am having is with connecting to the internet.  The device
> is connecting wirelessly to my router, and DHCP is working: the computer
> can report its own IP number, the router reports the computer's
> presence, and I can log into the router from the computer.  So far so
> good.  But DNS does not seem to be working.
> 
> My desktop PC is connected to the router by an ethernet cable, and is
> set to use the router as a DNS server, which has a fixed IP address on
> my network.  The router, of course, knows the addresses for my ISP's DNS
> servers.
> 
> That all works fine, but presumably with a wireless connection a
> computer needs automatically to send DNS lookups to the router it is
> currently connected to, whatever IP address the router has.  Putting an
> IP address for the router into a file on the computer obviously won't
> work.  Incidentally, my iPhone works wirelessly with the router, and
> doesn't have a problem connecting to the internet.
> 
> Unfortunately it is now well out of office hours, so I can't contact the
> suppliers of the computer to ask if they know how to solve the problem,
> and they can be difficult to get hold of at the best of times.
> 
> So can anyone point me in the right direction as to how to get DNS
> working?
> 
> David
>