[Discuss] new laptop, new problems

[dan moylan]

at the moment i have three laptops on my local net running
fc38.  the newest, deneb2 (hp laptop), is giving me problems;

this is its /etc/hosts:
  127.0.0.1        localhost localhost.localdomain
  127.0.0.1        deneb2    deneb2.localdomain
  192.168.12.1     t-mobile  t-mobile.localdomain
  192.168.12.148   alphacent alphacent.localdomain  (now off line)
  192.168.12.171   aldeberan aldeberan.localdomain
  192.168.12.183   deneb2    deneb2.localdomain
  192.168.12.221   rigel     rigel.localdomain
  192.168.12.117   HP_DeskJet_2700_series_0A85DE HP_DeskJet_2700_series_0A85DE.localdomain
  50.87.218.82     bluedan

the situation:
  aldeberan can ping t-mobile, rigel, but not deneb2
  rigel     can ping t-mobile, aldeberan, but not deneb2
  deneb2    can ping t-mobile, bluedan, mit.edu,
              but neither aldeberan nor rigel
              (destination host unreachable)

deneb2's route:
  Kernel IP routing table
  Destination   Gateway  Genmask       Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
  default       _gateway 0.0.0.0       UG    600    0     0 wlo1
  192.168.12.0  0.0.0.0  255.255.255.0 U     600    0     0 wlo1

i can't imagine what the difficulty is.

a further issue:
  deneb2 has auto-lock disabled, but auto-blank screen @ 5
  min.  when the screen blanks, it is impossible to recover.
  i.e. it stays blank.  no tapping any key nor the on/off
  power button nor anything else brings it back.

what the devil is going on?

ole dan

j. daniel moylan
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