GNOME Logon Problem

[Optimistic]

Welcome to my first post.

When I try to log in, either as root or into my regular account, I get the following message:

"Could not look up internet address for x1-6-00-04-5a-45-41-8c.
This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly.
It may be possible to correct the problem by adding
x1-6-00-04-5a-45-41-8c to the file /etc/hosts."

I can then log in anyway without any problems.

I tried to add x1-6...etc to my /etc/hosts file but still the same problem. I've googled to no avail. Any advice?

Related question: when I am running terminal that same address shows up--it is quite long and ugly can I make it more attractive?

I am running Fedore Core 2. I have a cable modem. I am not on a network.

Also, I'm fairly new to Linux, so apologies for being a n00b.

[imdeemvp]

when you were installing fc2, did you select network settings?

i will suggest to reinstall everything and before you click next read carefully every step by step setup...

[Nefarious]

Is your network card setup to get the IP Address by DHCP, or do you have it Static?

Or is it plugged in with USB?

Also, while you googled it, did you find nothing to help, or did everything you found to help not work?

[Optimistic]

"when you were installing fc2, did you select network settings?

i will suggest to reinstall everything and before you click next read carefully every step by step setup..."

I would rather not reinstall everything. It already took me a few days to transfer data, install hardware drivers, etc. There has to be a better way. And yes, I did pay attention to the setup, but I don't know a whole lot about Networking.

"Is your network card setup to get the IP Address by DHCP, or do you have it Static?"

I don't know--how could I find out?

"Also, while you googled it, did you find nothing to help, or did everything you found to help not work?"

It seemed like a number of people had the same problem, and those that fixed the problem did something to the /etc/hosts file and I tried those things, but it did not work.

One thing that might be causeing some of the trouble is that I have two network cards (one PCI, one internal)--the internal one doesn't work, but I didn't know which was which when I setup, so I just had both be active on boot. Is there anyway now to disable the one that doesn't work?

Thanks.

[James]

Originally posted by Optimistic
One thing that might be causeing some of the trouble is that I have two network cards (one PCI, one internal)--the internal one doesn't work, but I didn't know which was which when I setup, so I just had both be active on boot. Is there anyway now to disable the one that doesn't work?



By 'internal' do you mean integrated into the motherboard?
if so then there will be an option in your bios settings to disable it.

[Optimistic]

Thanks James, I'll try that.

[shamsul2203]

I have the problem too..

What I did is at /etc/host I wrote this line :
127.0.0.1 myhostname

Coment out other linesif any.

Then at terminal as root I type:
hostname myhostname

Of course change myhostname to whatever you want :)