On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 20:56 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Sa, den 30.04.2005 schrieb ckav.morgan@xxxxxxxxx um 20:35: > > > Can someone help me by explaining how I can overcome the following error message:- > > > > Could not look up internet address for x1-6-00-11-2f-35-38-bf. > > This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly. > > It may be possible to correct the problem by adding > > x1-6-00-11-2f-35-38-bf to the file /etc/hosts. > > > > It's my first day using Fedora and i'm totally new to Linux. > > > Chris > > Simply specify a hostname in system-config-network. Something like > "fedora.home.lan" would be ok. Maybe Alexander's answer was not so helpful to a new linux user, am i right? Welcome to linux and fedora. I can't help you with this problem, but be patient, most things get good answer within 24hours. Have you checked this document? http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~seabra/linux/FedoraRules.html Duncan