newbie: getting wireless going on hardy

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Thu Aug 14 16:07:59 UTC 2008


On 08/13/2008 10:36 AM, jeffrey.berger at mac.com wrote:
> Thanks! I'm looking at the bug reports. And I've got Terminal in the  
> top menubar.
> 
> The localhost line in hosts lacks a <machinename>. I'll try adding it.
> 
> The rest of the hosts file contains info re IPv6 capable hosts  
> including loopback, localnet, mcastprefix, allnodes, allrouters and  
> allhosts.
> 
> I don't have mail set up on my ubuntu machine or access over my LAN so  
> posting hosts is something of a chore.
> 
> That brings up another problem: my ubuntu IP address is 127.0.etc ...  
> But my LAN is running via Airport Extreme. Addresses (DHCP) are 10.0.  
> etc. The other machine on the LAN (this one) is running Leopard.
> 
> -J

Please bottom post on this list.


>>
>> Before you edit your hosts file, please post your /etc/hosts file;
>> Applications|Accessories|Terminal:
>>
>> cat /etc/hosts
>>

At least as a minimum post what you have in these two lines:

127.0.0.1
127.0.1.1





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