----- Original Message ----- From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] need help with /etc/hosts, hosts.config & resolv.config files Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 20:42:45 -0600
> > On Saturday 08 January 2005 06:29 pm, Angus Auld wrote: > > > Thank you Derek for the reply. I am really new at this network stuff. :-) > > I have been using dial-up for all my years of computing, and I just started > > using braodband now that it has finally come here to the boonies. > > > > I edited some of the mentioned files, and my hostname is once again > > "localhost". > > I changed my "eth0: Broadcom Corp BCM4401 100Base-T" connection > > to use DHCP Protocol, but now when I boot my comp, booting hangs > > at "bringing up eth0" for a long while, and finally fails trying to > > determine IP configuration. :-( > > The part that puzzles me is that ppp0 comes up OK, and my connection > > is working great. > > What gives here anyway? Doesn't ppp0 use my Broadcom nic??? > > > > I am dazed and confused. [8>/ > > > > I seem to remember a problem I had like that when I first got DSL. If I > remember I had to remove the ppp0 setup otherwise DHCP wouldn't load. > > -- > Chris ********************************************************** Thanks forthe reply Chris. I don't understand though.....if I remove my pppoe setup, how will I be able to use my adsl? I am in a *purple haze*. --Angus "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness." -- James Thurber *********************************************** ~Linux Laptop, Powered by Mandrake 10.1~ *********************************************** ~Reg. Linux User #278931~ *********************************************** -- _____________________________________________________________ Web-based SMS services available at http://www.operamail.com. From your mailbox to local or overseas cell phones. Powered by Outblaze
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