Wireless Network Problem 8.04

[Bob Cortez]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>
wrote:

> Bob Cortez wrote:
>
> > No help with this here?
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Bob Cortez <rjcortez at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The network manager kept wanting to append my domain to the user name
> so
> >> it wouldn't connect
>
> Well, no, because the problem as stated makes no sense.  Network manager
> doesn't even care what your user name is (though it cares about your
> hostname - you don't have that set to the same string as your username do
> you?)


I'm sorry, I'm fairly new to this.  Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Host name is MysticVentures-laptop
User name is MysticVentures
Domain is cortez-ross.

In Network settings>General Tab if I enter the domain name above then close
network settings, when I open it up again the domain is appended to the host
name >127.0.1.1  MysticVentures-Laptop.cortez-ross.  I can go to the
properties and delete the .cortez-ross from the host alias, but when I close
and reopen Net Work manage, cortez-ross is still appended.  The only way to
remove it is to leave the domain field blank.  I hope that makes sense now.

>
> >> .I thought I had that fixed by deleting the domain
> >> name, and it worked until I rebooted.
>
> You also didn't give us any indication how you deleted the domain name.
>  The
> only place I can imagine is in resolv.conf - and that clearly tells you
> that you can't modify it and Network Manager will rewrite it.
>
> Domain name _should_ be appended to your host name, but you don't
> (usually)
> _set_ your domain name - your DHCP server sends it to your DHCP client
> which puts it into resolv.conf


I didn't edit the resolv.conf file.  The only place that I have changed the
domain is in the network manager interface as described above.

>
>
> >> Now I can't even get the network
> >> manager to display the wireless network to edit.  I've tried
> reinstalling
> >> it.  I even went as far as completely removing it and installing it
> fresh
> >> from repository, not even from the installation disk.
>
> The most likely reason for that is that if you have now configured it
> in /etc/network/interfaces (if you did it through the system control
> panel,
> that's what you did) and Network Manager explicitly ignores those.
> --
> derek


I don't know if this provides any clues that may help find out how I've
messed this up.

mysticventures at mysticventures-laptop:~$ hostname -a
hostname: Unknown host
mysticventures at mysticventures-laptop:~$ hostname -s
hostname: Unknown host
mysticventures at mysticventures-laptop:~$ hostname -d
hostname: Unknown host
mysticventures at mysticventures-laptop:~$ hostname -f
hostname: Unknown host
mysticventures at mysticventures-laptop:~$ hostname
mysticventures-laptop
mysticventures at mysticventures-laptop:~$ uname -n
mysticventures-laptop
mysticventures at mysticventures-laptop:~$ sudo gedit /etc/hostname
sudo: unable to resolve host mysticventures-laptop
mysticventures at mysticventures-laptop:~$ sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces
sudo: unable to resolve host mysticventures-laptop

contents of  /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

Bottom line is how can I get the Wireless option back to the Network Manager
interface.

Thanks for your time and assistance.

Bob
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