Hi, I am a n00b on linux. I use Mandrake 9.1 as a desktop OS with a dualbook to w2kpro and use it about 50% of the time, but I am not very experienced.

Recently, my cell phone providor cut access to the WAP gateway, and I am looking to install kannel (a wap gateway) on my hosted webspace. I log in through ssh and use sh ./configure but it shoots out a cannot guess system type error and I don't know what to do. I have access to a cPanal but I do not know any details of the system my host uses , other than it runs some form of linux. Is there any way I can determine the type of system it is and manually provide this to the ./configure ?

Any help in determining the system type would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

If you have shell-access to the server you could
issue a uname -a to get some info about what you're
dealing with. If that comes back empty they may have
been lying to you about the Linux ;)


Cheers,
Tink

uname -a returns the following:

Linux ********.**********.net 2.4.26 #1 Wed June 30 21:28:16 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linix

How do I comstruct a valid --type= with this info.

Help greatly appreciated. Thanks

Hmmm ... can you post the exact error-message
that configure gives you?
Preferably with the way you invoke it, too.


Cheers,
Tink

I cd to the correct directory and type sh ./configure

The output:

loading cache ./configure.cache
checking system type ... configure: error: cannot guess host type; you must specify one

This is a hosted space, not my own box, and I cannot run ./configure on it

Anyone have any ideas?

try i686-pc-linux-gnu