I can't help you with your sound problem, but let's say you've purchased the domain name of walnut.telia.net and want to make your machine show up accordingly. As root, the command: echo walnut >/etc/HOSTNAME should have you up and on the net once you reboot. The thing is though, your domain name needs to already be registered on the internet as a valid domain name or you're going to run into all kinds of sendmail problems. -- Registered as user #315636 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/! _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list