Going Minimal and Manual
This is one of those niggly little problems that happens when people who install full desktop environments face when they go for a bit of fluff reduction and start doing things manually.
Network-Manager and Wicd
I’ve already written about manually setting up a wireless connection, and static wired connections, which will just usually takeover and leave network-manager-gnome or wicd redundant but still showing the applet in your panel.
I completely remove network-manager-gnome anyway, but you may have a reason for keeping it just in case.
Resolvconf
The thing is, you still have the resolvconf package installed which will automatically take over and wipe your manually edited /etc/resolv.conf file, it even tells you what will happen at the top of the file in a commented out warning.
Quick n Easy Method
Just edit and change the write permissions on the resolv.conf file so that resolvconf can’t wipe it.
sudo vim /etc/resolv.conf
Add your nameservers (Iuse Google’s)
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4
Then change it to read only (Can be reveresed by changing the + to a – in that command)
sudo chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf
Now reboot, you should have a nice manually configured wireless connection with no DNS issues or resolv.conf overwriting.
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