[SLUG] Ubuntu

[Stephen O'Neill]

Pete wrote:
> My problem has been with Debian and Ubuntu that Gnome 
> installations refuse to communicate with the network even though they are 
> installed with 'netinstall'.


What do you mean by this? You specifically say Gnome which is what I'm 
looking to clarify as I thought it was the kernel that handled 
connecting to the network and Gnot Gnome? I suspose I'm interested to 
know what your symptoms are.

I had a bit of network fun last night. I edited my hosts file so that I 
could get sendmail running (it didn't like the address 'tl50' and wanted 
  a dotted name like 'tl50.localdomain'). Oddly after that DNS just 
seemed to magically stop working and I had to manually set the DNS 
servers in /etc/resolv.conf.

Very odd.

Steve O