Mandrake install

[Ron]

Thank-you!!

There was no "HOSTNAME" entry in /etc/sysconfig/network just one entry

NETWQRKING=yes

took an educated guess and added

HOSTNAME=laptop

I edited /etc/hosts as suggested and logged out and back on Gnome. 
Gnome started without the previous error message and my command line
prompt now uses "laptop" rather than all the numbers.

Everything has been running worse than Win95 used to LOL.  No point
asking about it however.  I will need to play around a bit to see if
maybe it isn't already fixed.

again thank you!

On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 23:42, Robert Meyer wrote:
> Take a peek in /etc/sysconfig/network.  There should be a HOSTNAME entry in
> there.  Chances are that is where the 'xl-' stuff is coming from.  Change that
> to what you want the host name to be.  Then edit /etc/hosts and change the
> localhost line to be:
> 
> 127.0.0.1    localhost localhost.localdomain myhostname
> 
> Where 'myhostname' is the name that you gave the machine.  I find that I
> usually have to do this on standalone machines that are not using DNS and are
> not always connected to a network (such as dialups).  Try that and let us know
> where you get.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Bob
> --- Ron <ronb at cogeco.ca> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have just installed Mandrake 9.1 and there seems to be a problem. 
> > When I log on to Gnome there is a message 
> > 
> > "Could not look up internet address for x1-6-00-02-3f-90-93-4d. This
> > will prevent Gnome from operating correctly.  It may be possible to
> > correct the problem by adding x1-* to file /etc/hosts."
> > 
> > /etc/hosts
> > 127.0.0.1		localhost
> > 
> > I am not sure how to add x1* and am not sure if that is the whole
> > problem. My command line prompt uses the same numbers sequence in place
> > of the computer name 
> > 
> > "(ron at x1* ron)$"
> > 
> > During the install I distinctly remember setting the name, there was
> > also a second place to name the computer but it was optional and
> > wouldn't have been the name used in the command line prompt as it was
> > "descriptive and allowed the use of spaces. I did leave this one blank
> > 
> > No idea at all where "x1* came from or how to get rid of it.
> > 
> > Any input would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you
> > 
> > -- 
> > Ron
> > ronb at cogeco.ca
> > 
> 
> 
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