Noob Problems - Help Please

[centrlink]

hello

done some searching and can't find answers - i've got two probs:

1. on boot up, and just before it gets to the desktop, i get a box saying something like "could not look up internet for simon..." and it indicates there may be problems - what does this mean? how can i stop it?

2. internet problems - connects to router no probs - but when i open browser ( and i've tried chromium too) it just times out. i've seen people having probs connecting, and dropping out, but that doesn't seem to be a problem for me - i just can't access the web. any thoughts?

thanks in advance, cheers, simon

 

[mindlord]

You'll need to reflash (See section on Complete Firmware Image), the first-run script did not set your Pandora's hostname correctly which leads to all manner of problems.

 

[mali]

I'm sure I've seen the first problem being mentioned before. Maybe your username contains special characters?
Regarding the second problem, I haven't seen something like that being mentioned in a while. Make sure you have the latest firmware/hotfix installed.

edit:
Mindlord might have hit a bit closer.

 

[centrlink]

thx guys, i'll reflash and make sure i have latest hotfix, and see how i go....

cheers, simon

 

[chuckr]

You'll need to reflash (See section on Complete Firmware Image), the first-run script did not set your Pandora's hostname correctly which leads to all manner of problems.

Mindlord, isn't there any way short of reflashing that could re-trigger the initial setup routines? I know, if it had been me, I would have just booted with a flash upon which I'd used one of my other machines to put a rootfs image onto, a fresh one, and that'd have re-triggered initial setup for me. I just really hate it when something from the user side of things causes a reflash, it seems like major surgery for a tummyache. You know, the menu triggered with R should be able to get you to a single-user boot of the kernel, to fix any etc sort of problem. If it doesn't, it's certainly an idea for the next go-round, there are too many things in /etc that could go wrong, like password things. Stuff which folks memorized emergency procedures for. That was the reason I first learned how to use "ed", because, in early Unixes, vi wasn't available in the root partition.

 

[centrlink]

thx for the help gents, posting from my pandora now

reflashing did the trick, although i got that recurring date select error, which i got around by leaving the battery out for a while

cheers, simon

 

[gruso]

Yep, had the same recurring date thing happen yesterday. Same solution. I think about 5 minutes with the battery out did it.

 

[Loon]

Yep, had the same recurring date thing happen yesterday. Same solution. I think about 5 minutes with the battery out did it.

This seems like a really weird solution to me, what is the difference as far as the the Pandora is concerned with having the unit powered down for 5 mins and having the battery removed for 5 mins?

 

[mali]

^ I think tsh might be on the right track in the other thread. It might have todo something with the RTC, which is powered by the battery.

 

[torpor]

Gruso, you finally got your Pandora?

 

[gruso]

Yarp.

http://pandorapress.net/2010/08/04/day-one-in-the-life-of-a-pandora-2/

 

[mali]

^ Great article