<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Vincent wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:aed7edfa0810301054q1113daf1ne852fb9820e1a304@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Daan Hoogland <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:dhoogland@interestate.nl">dhoogland@interestate.nl</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hello, I managed to install Xubuntu 8.04 onto a laptop (Compaq M700, PIII 650 MHz, 576 MB RAM). However, no connection to the internet has been established. A message appears: Could not look up internet address for daan-laptop. This will prevent Xfce from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the problem by adding daan-laptop to the file /etc/hosts on your system. Although I understand the message I do not know how to correct this. Can anybody help me? Thank you very much in advance. regards, Daan </blockquote> </div> Hi Daan, I'm not too sure how to solve this, but... What does your /etc/hosts file look like? -- Vincent </blockquote> Hello Vincent, The /etc/hosts file looks as follows: 127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.1.1 daan-laptop.werkgroep # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts At the moment I managed to connect to the internet. I changed the IP-address of my laptop to 192.168.2.100. For some obscure reason the connection could be established. But still 127 updates are waiting to be downloaded. When I tell the packet manager to get these updates nothing happens. Only the cursor starts turning, nothing else. </body> </html>