On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 10:27 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 06:55 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 16:10 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 19:52 +0100, Victor Lazzarini wrote: > > > > Thanks, I am now seeing my wireless router on > > > > the machines and can ping other machines connected > > > > to it. Wired internet seems to work (as far as ifconfig > > > > and ping are concerned). > > > > > > > > Two questions: > > > > > > > > 1. How should I set my hostname and fix it to work > > > > with DHCP? > > > > > > The hostname isn't changed by NM because that breaks Xauth and stops you > > > from being able to launch X apps. > > > > I thought this got fixed in X quite a while ago (something like 18 > > months ago). It certainly used to be a PITA. > > Certainly not fixed, I just tested it out and it fails miserably. It is > a PITA. Somebody who knows X needs to fix Xauth to not rely on > hostnames. > > The xauth cookie depends on the hostname of the machine at the time > xinit gets run, so we either need to change our xinit stuff to put > 127.0.0.1 there for a hostname, or suck up the fact that changing the > hostname kills the ability to start X apps.
Keithp demo'ed this at a conference over a year ago; I'll try to track him down to figure out what we're doing wrong. - Jim > > Dan > > -- Jim Gettys One Laptop Per Child _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel