Desperately need help! DHCP & host name problems........

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 20.05.2004 schrieb chun lee um 17:35:

> As I am struggling to get my internet connection to work properly, I am
> getting more and more lost with it. Desperately need help!
> 
> Ok, I have a dual boot system (laptop) that has Fedora and Windows XP. And
> the type of connection I am trying to get to work is Ethernet DHCP.

> I then tried to bring up the Ethernet connection during the system start up,
> but the host name (appeared at the bottom right corner during the log in)
> has changed! it changed into my Windows XP's system name(winchun). If I
> proceed with the log in, it gave me a message saying something like "could
> not look up internet address for winchun. This will prevent GNOME from
> operating correctly". If I continue further, fedora starts up as normal and
> things seems to work including mozilla and the rest. Just now instead of
> saying in the terminal:
> 
> myname at localhost myname
> 
> It says
> 
> myname at the_name_of_my_window_system myname

> CHUN

Chun,

the question for setting the hostname while using DHCP was answered more
than one time and even just yesterday (IIRC). Grab the list archive.

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/s1-network-config-ethernet.html

Using redhat-config-network setting up the ethernet device with DHCP set
the hostname by hand. That should cause a setting DHCP_HOSTNAME in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and to a setting in
/etc/hosts.

Alexander


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