[SOLVED] Fedora Core 10 - Unable to connect to Internet
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I use Windows7 on my laptop. I have got the following version of VMware Server installed on it.
**VMware Infrastructure Web Access Version 2.0.0 Build 122589**
**VMware Server Version 2.0.0 Build 122956**
I am running Fedora Core 10 on VMware, but Fedora is not able to connect to the Internet. However, when I try to ping www.google.com, it works fine. However, if I try to open www.google.com in mozilla-firefox, it gets stuck at "Connecting to www.google.com" and then finally times out. Similarly, yum also gets stuck.
Please help me in resolving this issue. Thanks a lot in advance.
Could be that because FC10 is EOL, the mirror list contains entries that cannot be reached anymore.
Have you tried putting it in a browser or elinks? http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mir...a-10&arch=i386
Give "yum clean all" a try.
Tell us how you go!
also be warned that in fedora 10 there was a change from "network-manager" to "network" and wireless almost NEVER worked " out of the box" on the now dead fedora 10
Another thing that I would like to bring to the notice of you all is that I am running Fedora in VMware Server. I believe that you guys would not have missed that part out.
So...
You can ping from the virtual machine, but all other traffic is blocked. Correct?
The iptables (firewall) inside your virtual machine seems to allow all outbound traffic...
I think this is turning into a post for the Windows forum
You might want to check the firewall on W7!
Another thing that I would like to bring to the notice of you all is that I am running Fedora in VMware Server. I believe that you guys would not have missed that part out.
Thanks,
// Prats
ALSO to add (as others have said)...remember that Fedora 10 is OLD and DEPRECATED...
install Fedora 12 or wait for 13
...that being said...you might want to modify iptables or disable it...
Also...just disable SELinux entirely...some might disagree with me...but just disable it (unless you are planing on learning how to work with it)
I managed to fix the problem by following the instructions at http://florianlr.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/5/ . It is the problem with Windows7 and VMware. Had got nothing to do with Linux as such.
One other thing I'd mention is- as a new comer to linux you might be better directed towards more stable distributions, fedora is not a good platform for a beginner really because of the rapidity it changes at. Try centos or debian or if you want better base hw compatibility ubuntu. There are some sneaky pitfalls that aren't apparent with many of the bleeding edge distributions that make them often a flustering experience for a newcomer although they often are the prettiest and flashiest.
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