ubuntu network problems with gaming....

[terry98]

there's some weird problem with my ubuntu.....

i've got quake 4 instaled natively and it doesnt find any other lan servers, neither does anygame running from cedega, i installed C&C Generals in cedega and my lan address shows 127.0.1.1....

so i went to /etc/hosts and chaged my pc address to my lan ip, after that it was showing my lan ip but didnt work....

i cant get to see any lan game servers... ive tried quake4, C&C Generals, StarCraft, and neither network servers shows the windows pc's in my network, any help......????

Running Dapper 6.06, AMD64 3000+, kernel 2.6.15-26-k7, 1Gb DDR400, Evga Geforce 7800GT, Sound Blaster Audigy LS.

[handy]

Can you access the Ubuntu repositories for updates?

If you can't, then you may be suffering from a DNS problem that seems to me to be a problem with some router/modem's & can be worked around.

If you can access the repo's, then the only help I can give you is this bump... :)

[terry98]

i can play online normally
its only with lan, i can use internet or apt with no problems at all

[handy]

i can play online normally
its only with lan, i can use internet or apt with no problems at all

Sorry, I didn't read carefully enough.

If you do no good here, you might try the Networking sub-forum, there are a lot of guru's that don't look in the game section.

I'm sure your solution is getting closer...