On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 12:12:15AM -0600, Marc Olivier wrote:
> ok, here is the situation with my request. I am going to pester Suse
> Linux, since it is there product, adn they should support it.
Erm, you're likely to get better support here on TCLUG.
> Thanks to those who responded for the offers of help, I appreciate
> it.
So why didn't you respond to any of our posts? :-)
> My main thing right now is, when I go into konsole, and I type lp,
> I get the following "Get_local_host: 'localhost' IP address not
> available!"
That sUx0rs.
<stab type="wild">What does your /etc/hosts file look like?</stab>
> Now, I get this after setting host name as "linux" and domain name
> as "localhost", and I have the network address as follows:
> Network device =eth0
> Setup method; Static address setup (because DHCP won't take at all
> without an external server address for some reason)
Prolly because DHCP means that you have to talk to a server to get
your host config info. Again I ask: is your ISP set up to give you
a dynamic address? Do you have a dialup, DSL, cable, ISDN, what?
> IP address=192.168.0.1 Subnet mask=255.255.255.0
> Earlier, I had entered several addresses in the name server list,
> and now, I can't get them out. What is happening?
Very likely your name server addresses got put into /etc/resolv.conf.
One of your other posts mentions that you have a dialup connection.
If you're not connected to your ISP, you're not going to be able to
do much with that.
I'm puzzled as to what you are trying to do. It sounds like you're
working on printing, some sort of ethernet setup (eth0), some sort
of dialup setup (modem mentioned elsewhere), and some sort of name
service stuff. I would suggest the following to-do list, done in
the following order:
1. Get your host configured correctly; IP address, et cetera.
2. Get dialup networking going. That way you can use the
host on the net to read mail and update packages.
3. Get printing going.
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