wireless connection and X session

[François Patte]

Mikkel L. Ellertson a écrit :
> François Patte wrote:
> 
>>Bonjour,
>>
>>I am facing a problem that I don't understand. I installed FC4 on my
>>laptop and wireless is working fine but if I launch the wireless
>>connection after the boot (using for instance ifup eth1) I loose the
>>ownership of the X session, ie I am unable to open any graphical
>>application.
>>
>>If I kill my session and log again, I recover this ownership (and the
>>wireless connection is not lost...).
>>
>>Who can help me?
>>
>>Thank you.
> 
> Dumb question - is your hostname changing when you bring up the
> network connection? If so, this will cause problems in X.

This seems to be exactly the problem and it seems to be present only
with gnome..... (not appears with kde...)

What can i do? How to guess the hostname you will get when you want to
use a wifi in an airport for instance? Shall I put all possible names in
/etc/hosts?

I'm interrested to the solution of this problem....

Thanks.

-- 
François Patte
UFR de mathématiques et informatique
Université René Descartes
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte