On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 10:19, Jeroen Van Goey wrote: > I'm unable to make contact with the internet. I get an "Unable to find > IP > address for server name "localhost.localdomain" - Host name lookup > failure" error message. The step-by-step procedure I've followed so > far. > > I have a Fast Ethernet 10/100M PCI network card from Genius on a linux > PC running Fedora core 1, kernel 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl and GNOME. My > system recognizes the networkcard, because at bootup, I see (using the > command "dmesg | grep eth0"): > eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xc48bd000, 00:40:f4:6f:b4:90, > IRQ 11 > eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' > divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0 > divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 > eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xc48d6000, 00:40:f4:6f:b4:90, > IRQ 11 > eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' > eth0: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex, lpa 0x0000 > > The output of "cat /proc/ioports" is: > 0000-001f : dma1 > 0020-003f : pic1 > 0040-005f : timer > 0060-006f : keyboard > 0070-007f : rtc > 0080-008f : dma page reg > 00a0-00bf : pic2 > 00c0-00df : dma2 > 00f0-00ff : fpu > 01f0-01f7 : ide0 > 0213-0213 : isapnp read > 02f8-02ff : serial(auto) > 0378-037a : parport0 > 037b-037f : parport0 > 03c0-03df : vga+ > 03f6-03f6 : ide0 > 03f8-03ff : serial(auto) > 0a79-0a79 : isapnp write > 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1 > 4000-403f : Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI > 5000-501f : Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI > d000-dfff : PCI Bus #01 > e000-e01f : Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB > e000-e01f : usb-uhci > e400-e4ff : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. > RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ <----- > e400-e4ff : 8139too <----- > f000-f00f : Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE > f000-f007 : ide0 [snip] > That's about as much information as I can give you. > Where did I go wrong, or what did I forget? > Thanks for the help. > > Jeroen Make sure you have the following line in your /etc/hosts file. 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost Wolf
