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I need help! I just finished dual booting Win2K with RedHat7.0.
It works, but I can't configure my internet! The MIS/IT people at my company don't work with Linux too often, so they're having problem. My main problems are:
1) When starting up, I get:
Starting lpd: Get_local_host:'localhost' IP address not available
I also get:
Using Servername directive: [Failed]
2) looking under netcfg, I inputed all the IP stuff the MIS people told me & none of them work!
(j-harris.dircon.co.uk being my internal domain, a hang up from some years ago that I can't be arsed to change).
Also did you give the machine a proper name?? what do you get when you type
Code:
uname -n
Mind you I don't see why this would stop you from getting out onto the web. You're setting up your access on the company LAN yeah? Have they given you a proper IP address, is your network card working correctly, can you get to other machines on the lan (if only with ping) and have they given you details of their Proxy for you to tell Netscape (I'm assuming they have a proxy, if they have direct access then be afriad, be very afriad...)
127.0.0.1 localhost (except in my case, localhost=myfirstname_mylastname)
I don't have anything else. If I type uname, I get Linux.
Did I do anything wrong?
Quote:
Mind you I don't see why this would stop you from getting out onto the web. You're setting up your access on the company LAN yeah? Have they given you a proper IP address, is your network card working correctly, can you get to other machines on the lan (if only with ping) and have they given you details of their Proxy for you to tell Netscape (I'm assuming they have a proxy, if they have direct access then be afriad, be very afriad...)
My IP address is 10.11.10.17, where do I put it?
Do I put it as:
10.11.10.17 Masterdomain.com in /etc/hosts?
My network card is fine, I can get on the web when I'm on Win2K.
I'm not sure about the rest, I'll try to ping onto other machines and they have not given me anything about their Proxy.
Also, do you think it's because I need to load a driver?
Sorry for the long message!
where you substituted machineName in both places for the name you have given to your machine.
I'm not from the Redhat camp so can't tell you where Redhat sets its IP address... you will definately need to enter is somewhere!
Quote:
Originally posted by HHH My network card is fine, I can get on the web when I'm on Win2K.
I'm not sure about the rest, I'll try to ping onto other machines and they have not given me anything about their Proxy.
Also, do you think it's because I need to load a driver?
Have you loaded any modules for you network card? Type
Code:
ifconfig
at the command prompt, then
Code:
lspci
at the command prompt and post the results. That way we'll be able to see what network card you have and wether it's configured.
As for the proxy settings - you'll need these as there must be somekind of proxy or NAT gateway setup going on as the 10.0.0.0 IP addresses are reserved for internal use.
Quote:
Originally posted by HHH Sorry for the long message!
Thanks in advance!
A long message is always better that a short one. At least if you give too many details we can ignore some, if you don't give us enough we're stuck! And as for the last bit - no worries in advance!
I added the IP address and my machine name.
Now,when I did the ifconfig --> lspci, I got a list of devices, all which say "Unknown Device" except the last three. They had:
Also, how do I run LILO withu rebooting?
When I type lilo in terminal window, get some error which said I'm over the 1024 cylinder and that linear doesn't support it. They said I should use lbt32.
Right so it looks like you have an Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 network card. What was the output from ifconfig? You may need to load the eepro100 modules using modprobe... but lets get the output from ifconfig first.
As for lilo - when you run the lilo command it attempt to install lilo to your system as per /etc/lilo.conf. LILO itself is executed as part of the boot sequence from the MBR. Its not something you can just execute from the command line.
Now FTP works but telnet doesn't!!! (Except telnet to myself)
It seems that I can't telnet to anything, words or IP addresses, even though I can surf the web. I am thinking that this is related to my previous post about having an error message before booting up.
The local host problem will probably be solved by adding the following line to /etc/hosts
Code:
127.0.0.1 localhost
and then check that /etc/host.conf contains
Code:
order hosts, bind
multi on
As for the telnet - you mean other machines on your LAN or machines out on the Internet? If its LAN machines then the only thing I can think of is your firewalling rules (local ones). Check your ipchains/iptables setup. If its machines out on the web then I'm not surprised, you probably don't have a direct route out onto the Internet. However did this work before?
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