California Dreams

I have been itching to start working on some Mobile Firefox stuff, and now I finally got some time to install the prerequisites. It is quite a bit of stuff. But even the build worked!

Unfortunately DNS is not working in the, hmm, not sure what to call it, but the system that is running in the Xephyr window. I even looked at Maemo intructions on networking problems (the Matrix reference is hilarious), but it still does not work. Seems a lot of people have had the same problem, but my nsswitch.conf and resolv.conf seem to be correct.

At this point I suspect this might be due to me running Scratchbox in a VMWare guest, with NAT networking. Unfortunately it seems VMWare does not support bridged networking with wireless, which is what I need. I guess I could live with this setup for a little while, though.

Update: It seems something was wrong with the /etc/resolv.conf in scratchbox after all. I was sure I checked it yesterday, but today it contained only localhost. After matching that up with the VMWare guest’s version, Maemo got DNS.