modem and shutdown questions

[Ryan Spaulding]

Hi,

Change your hostname back to localhost. If you are using an isp you need to 
set up your DNS(Domain Name Server) servers. I am not familar with YD 
interface for this. with PPClinux there is an option in PPP to select and 
put in the IP address for Earthlink's DNS. If you call Earthlink's customer 
support and ask them for the IP's they will give them to you.

good luck

Ryan


>From: jesse <dniw@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>To: <yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
>Subject: modem and shutdown questions
>Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 21:24:24 -0400
>
>Hi,
>
>I found a question similar to mine posed on the yellow dog lists, but I
>didn't find any answers posted (maybe they went off list).
>
>So, here's a few things I ran into now that I installed 2.3 (release
>2.4.19-4a) on my imac rev e. :-)
>
>1.  I have my modem set up, and it connects to my isp (i can see how much
>time it's been connected for and so on).  However, when I try to check 
>email
>or use Konquerer, I get the error message "unknown host."  Thus, "unknown
>host www.google.com", and "unknown host mail.earthlink.net."  Any thoughts
>on how to correct it?  This must be pretty simple, but I'm not sure what to
>check.
>
>2.  I've tried to shutdown in a couple of ways none of them very 
>successful:
>a) graphic shutdown button in KDE.
>result:  tried to shutdown, sent kill signal, etc.  there was a noise that
>sounded like a spinning thing coming to rest (it sounded like a good 
>noise).
>however, it hung up before shutting off the actual power.  the last thing 
>it
>did was, "flushing ide devices hda hdb."
>b) comman "halt -p"
>result:  same as for step (a) above.
>c) command "/sbin/shutdown -h"
>result:  invalid command.  Yes, i was root, and checked the spelling.  :-?
>d) command "shutdown -h"
>result: invalid command.  i was root, and checked the spelling. :-?
>Any ideas?
>
>
>3. I also seem to have changed the usual "localhost" setting to 
>"earthlink."
>as in when the screen should read jesse@localhost, it reads 
>jesse@earthlink,
>and root@earthlink.  I've tried a few things (eg. followed directions on
>"man hostname") to change the name back to localhost, but I haven't been
>able to change it, yet, by following those instructions.  So, um, any 
>newbie
>proof advice on how to do that?
>
>4)  this doesn't matter so much, as long as things work, but my screen
>resolution is pretty faded because I wound up using the "failsafe" option 
>in
>xconfigurator since that was the only thing that prevented me from getting
>that "respawning too fast" error.  Are there any suggestions to improve the
>screen resolution? Should I have better screen resolution?
>
>TIA for any ideas you have on those. :-)
>
>All Best,
>Jesse
>
>
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