name service not correctly set using wlan

Dear all,

i'm using a laptop running Suse8.1 with a custom compiled kernel 2.4.24
which is connected either to a wired ethernet connection or to a wireless.
Both interfaces were set-up using the standard Suse config tool Yast in the
same way as far as name server and routing goes (letting DHCP do all the
work). The wireless has of course some additonal settings.

However, somewhere there seems to be a difference in the configuration,
which I can't figure out (at least not from looking at the
/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-ethx files.

When I reboot the laptop with the cable plugged in, the host name and DNS is
apparently set up correctly.

However, when I have only the wireless device activated, I see that the when
detecting the wireless interface, it gets the correct IP address and
hostname (wlan-xxx), however this information does not seem to propagate
further than this. When the boot process is finished, the name of the
machine is still linux2 (local name). I suppose, DHCP for the second
interface (eth1) is called with different options than for the wired one
(eth0). Were do I need to look for this, if not in ifcfg-eth0/1?
Also, I noticed that also /etc/resolv.conf is not updated when the wlan
interface starts, but it is when eth0 starts.


Thanks for any help to point me in the right direction ...

Cheers,

Riko