On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 17:32 +0200, François Patte wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson a écrit : > > François Patte wrote: > > > >>Bonjour, > >> > >>I am facing a problem that I don't understand. I installed FC4 on my > >>laptop and wireless is working fine but if I launch the wireless > >>connection after the boot (using for instance ifup eth1) I loose the > >>ownership of the X session, ie I am unable to open any graphical > >>application. > >> > >>If I kill my session and log again, I recover this ownership (and the > >>wireless connection is not lost...). > >> > >>Who can help me? > >> > >>Thank you. > > > > Dumb question - is your hostname changing when you bring up the > > network connection? If so, this will cause problems in X. > > This seems to be exactly the problem and it seems to be present only > with gnome..... (not appears with kde...) > > What can i do? How to guess the hostname you will get when you want to > use a wifi in an airport for instance? Shall I put all possible names in > /etc/hosts? > > I'm interrested to the solution of this problem.... > > Thanks. Well here is my question. If you are using wireless communication using DHCP to multiple access points why are you defining a hostname? Take the hostname the dhcp server gives you. -- Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
