Re: Determining IP information for eth0 failed

From: Wolfgang (wolfgang_at_rpi.net.au)
Date: 03/31/04

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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 23:44:39 +1000

    On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 10:19, Jeroen Van Goey wrote:
    > I'm unable to make contact with the internet. I get an "Unable to find
    > IP
    > address for server name "localhost.localdomain" - Host name lookup
    > failure" error message. The step-by-step procedure I've followed so
    > far.
    >
    > I have a Fast Ethernet 10/100M PCI network card from Genius on a linux
    > PC running Fedora core 1, kernel 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl and GNOME. My
    > system recognizes the networkcard, because at bootup, I see (using the
    > command "dmesg | grep eth0"):
    > eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xc48bd000, 00:40:f4:6f:b4:90,
    > IRQ 11
    > eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
    > divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0
    > divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
    > eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xc48d6000, 00:40:f4:6f:b4:90,
    > IRQ 11
    > eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
    > eth0: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex, lpa 0x0000
    >
    > The output of "cat /proc/ioports" is:
    > 0000-001f : dma1
    > 0020-003f : pic1
    > 0040-005f : timer
    > 0060-006f : keyboard
    > 0070-007f : rtc
    > 0080-008f : dma page reg
    > 00a0-00bf : pic2
    > 00c0-00df : dma2
    > 00f0-00ff : fpu
    > 01f0-01f7 : ide0
    > 0213-0213 : isapnp read
    > 02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
    > 0378-037a : parport0
    > 037b-037f : parport0
    > 03c0-03df : vga+
    > 03f6-03f6 : ide0
    > 03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
    > 0a79-0a79 : isapnp write
    > 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
    > 4000-403f : Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI
    > 5000-501f : Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI
    > d000-dfff : PCI Bus #01
    > e000-e01f : Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB
    > e000-e01f : usb-uhci
    > e400-e4ff : Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
    > RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ <-----
    > e400-e4ff : 8139too <-----
    > f000-f00f : Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE
    > f000-f007 : ide0
    [snip]
    > That's about as much information as I can give you.
    > Where did I go wrong, or what did I forget?
    > Thanks for the help.
    >
    > Jeroen

    Make sure you have the following line in your /etc/hosts file.

    127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost

    Wolf 

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