[ubuntu-in] Problem with Broadband in Allahabad (Dapper 6.06) (74yrs old)

[Anurag Mishra]

Dear Friends!

I think I forgot to mention  that I  am in US and my Dad is in Allahabad and
the best I can do is phone support. I am planning to post him a CD of UBUNTU
7.10, so that he can upgrade his system. I will see if he can try and get
broadband working over on phone. If anybody of you is in Allahabad and help
him physically, that would be amazing.

Thanks for you responses,
Anurag

  1.  Problem with Broadband in Allahabad (Dapper 6.06) (Anurag Mishra)
>   2. Re:  Problem with Broadband in Allahabad (Dapper 6.06) (74yrs old)
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> Dear Friends,
>
> I got so many responses for offer to help my parents with Broadband. The
> problem is that when the command sudo ppoeconf is issued we get this error
> "sudo: unable to lookup (none) via gethostbyname()". In fact sudo with any
> command was not working.
>
> It appeared that that administrative privileges were gone. We restarted
> the
> computer and edited /etc/hosts and added the username at the end of
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.
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> This appeared to fix the problem and sudo started working (we tested).
> Then
> again we issued sudo ppoeconf and we got the same error.  We checked sudo
> again with other command and administrative privileges were lost again.
>
> Looks like ppoeconf caused these privileges to loose.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Anurag
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> Anurag Mishra
> Graduate Research Assistant,
> Biological Systems Engineering,
> Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA-24061.
> Phone: (540) 231 -2083 (office)
> (540) 239-4436 (cell)
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> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:20:20 +0530
> From: "74yrs old" <withblessings at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-in] Problem with Broadband in Allahabad (Dapper
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> If you are using BSNL broadband and also has MSwindows, contact BSNL
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Anurag Mishra
Graduate Research Assistant,
Biological Systems Engineering,
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA-24061.
Phone: (540) 231 -2083 (office)
(540) 239-4436 (cell)
http://mishranurag.blogspot.com
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