On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 17:46, angus <angus at mypcsorted.co.uk> wrote: > Frustratingly I got onto the internet too, but since rebooting it comes up > without a hostname, 'unknown', despite there being a reference in /etc/hosts, > and not letting me ping the gateway ip... let alone any further . To set your hostname: echo "myboxname" > /etc/nodename To set a static ipv4 address: echo "boxalias" > /etc/hostname.rge0 (probably) echo "boxalias 123.45.67.8" >> /etc/hosts modify /etc/netmasks to match To use DHCP: touch /etc/dhcp.rge0 rm /etc/hostname.rge0 I think those are all the steps. If it doesn't work, please let me know and I'll try to get you sorted out.
Will
