Re: Huawei E156G connection issue

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 14:31 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 11:06:10PM +0200, Gianluca Sforna wrote:
> > I'm on Fedora 11 (NetworkManager-0.7.1-8.git20090708.fc11.x86_64) and
> > I'm experiencing an issue with my USB dongle in that after it connect
> > correctly I can't browse any site.
> > I tried to connect using the same account with my Nokia phone and
> > everything works correctly.
> > 
> > Comparing the relevant sections of the kernel logs (see below) it
> > seems the connection with the USB dongle lacks proper DNS records.
> > 
> > If this worth filing in bugzilla?
> 
> Its known that there are bugs in ppp surrouding dns results. I think
> in NM 0.8 we now fall back to a generic DNS that should always work if
> there is no DNS found and none configured.
> 
> For 0.7.1 I would suggest that you if you know your provider details,
> just edit your connection and manually set DNS manually.

0.7.2 will have it as well:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?h=NETWORKMANAGER_0_7&id=99db3d89725c4f1853107111bc601f422e70900b

Dan