I have my hostname back, but still can't send out Mozilla email or receive email for the right user. I want a simple DUN to access the internet. I have a 3Com PCI NIC, just the card, nothing else. I get a nasty network configuration popup on bootup that I don't know how to fill out. I tried several times and now just cancel it. It tells me "good luck" but my luck is all bad. I get an error message logging in to gnome GUI saying something like can't find IP address, gnome won't work correctly, adding Debian to the hosts file may correct this. Well, it doesn't. I ask if someone would please tell me if adding all the network files could have caused this and got no reply. So, right or wrong, I dselected out the network files making sure I kept wvdial, ppp and other files needed for dial out. Due to some dependency crap, wvdial was removed. I'm 67 and really don't want to read a bunch of manuals that I don't understand(linux/unix related terms). I've read some and they weren't very helpful. I don't mind reinstalling, but need clarification on networking, if that's needed(have reinstalled about 5 times already). I'd like some quick fix and am open to communicating one on one with some knowledgeable person willing to do so. Well, I know I've ranted too much. Please help.
Leonard Chatagnier ----- Original Message ----- From: "Croy, Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 2:26 PM Subject: RE: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work > > > From: Leonard Chatagnier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 11:43 AM > > > > Ugh, don't know how to, yet. Could you give me the command > > or referenct? > > Login as root and type the following: > echo chatagnier > /etc/hostname > > > To clarify my previous post: > > In my other post I said source /etc/profile because, normally, this file is > automatically sourced when a normal user logs in, and PS1 (the variable that > controls how the prompt looks) is set there. You sane always change that at > any time by doing something like PS1="My Prompt: ". > > I also gave this option of sourceing ~/.profile because I didn't know if you > were logging in as a normal user or root. On the system I use, when root > logs in, /etc/profile is NOT sourced, but the .profile file in root's home > directory is (the tilda (~) is shorthand for the current user's home > directory). > > > > Len Chatagnier > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, December 03, 2004 8:42 AM > > Subject: Re: Newbie Having Much Trouble Getting Deb > > 2.4.18-bf2.4 To Work > > > > > > > Leonard Chatagnier wrote: > > > > > > >RE: Nathan Croy's suggestions: > > > >#hostname=none > > > >I have no hostname file in /etc, only host.conf, > > hosts.allow, hosts.deny > > and > > > >host.canna. > > > > > > > > > > > So create an "/etc/hostname" file, and in it have your computer's > > hostname. > > > > > > -- > > > Kent West > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
