On Wednesday 20 February 2002 12:55 pm, you wrote: > Are you by any chance running cups? Yep, I am....... > > > Hi All, > > Got a gremlin in my box, I can't make the network configuration stay. > > Using Mandrake Control Center to set up a static IP on my machine seems > > to work fine, set's it up and I can use the network. > > Ahh, now comes the fun, when I reboot, it looses the host name and IP > > address. So, I set it all up using linux conf, let it make changes and > > opened it again to look. hostname set back to localhost.localdomain on > > first page, NO hostname, alias or IP address on second page. tried > > ifconfig, no device for eth0 error message. > > Getting frustrated at this point, went back into Mandrake control Center > > and AGAIN set it all up, let it make changes, network is OK, reboot, > > pffft, no Ipaddress or hostname... > > Wotinell's going on? > > I've 4 Mandrake 8.1 boxes and the one in question is the only one doing > > this.... > > FWIW, I have the network set up as smbfs all the way, using static IP's, > > no nfs..... > > Hosts on the network are: xxx.xxx.0.1 -> .0.5, the one having the problem > > is xxx.xxx.0.2........ OH, the box worked flawlessly on 8.1 until I > > re-installed with a different HDD..... > > Gremlins??? Or does someone have an idea??
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