[wplug] Laptop and DHCP

[John Strange]

Hehe,

Abit's old motherboards are horrendous after a year or so, the caps on
the power systems start leaking and before you know it the board gets
really unstable.

I should of taken a picture of the caps on my old board.  Looked like a
bad car battery.

On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 10:53, Vanco, Donald wrote:
> Tim Lesher wrote:
> > I have a laptop that I use to connect to LANs at both work and at
> > home, using either a wireless or wired connection (depends on the
> > phase of moon).  My machine name isn't in th DNS at either place, so
> > when I start Gnome, it complains that it can't find look up its
> > internet address.  I used to solve this by hardcoding the address in
> > /etc/hosts, but now I'm using DHCP everywhere, so that's not an
> > option. 
> > 
> > Is there a simple solution for this?
> If your machine does not get it's hostname via DHCP you can add it as an
> alias to the loopback (localhost) address in /etc/hosts and you'll be fine
> e.g.:
> 127.0.0.1       crashmaster	localhost       localhost.localdomain
> 
> 	...crashmaster is my Abit based system.  If you own an Abit MoBo you
> know exactly why it's so named.....
> Don
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