Yum firefox cannot access internet, Konqueror and kopete can
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So here is my problem, i finially got my windows box to share its wireless connection with my fedora 7 box(fresh install) by bridging the connections. Konqueror works fine, so does kopete. Unfortunately yum and firefox that I have realsied so far dont work.
here is the error from yum:
[root@localhost ~]# yum search kde
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mir...ra-7&arch=i386 error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (113, 'No route to host')>
Error: Cannot open/read repomd.xml file for repository: fedora
if i type http://www.google.com into firefox it gives a standard error message about not being able to connect, but if i do this: http://64.233.167.99/
which is one of google's ip addresses it displays the google page fine.
any other info you want just ask. thanks heaps.
regards
you need to configure your repository . the the default one does not work. if you are using 7 then you may be in trouble the repository has been down for a long time. f8 is what they are using. yum looks for the repository you configured in setting. but if F7 is no longer being kept up then it is not usable. so If you do find a f7 repository then use there key and carry on.
you need to configure your repository . the the default one does not work. if you are using 7 then you may be in trouble the repository has been down for a long time. f8 is what they are using. yum looks for the repository you configured in setting. but if F7 is no longer being kept up then it is not usable. so If you do find a f7 repository then use there key and carry on.
thanks for the response. I do have an installation of fedora 8. Was very problematic when it came to installing compiz so decided to install fc7 on old h/d. i will try set up internet connection sharing on my f8 box and see if that solves the yum issue. hmm, but it still does not explain firefox behaviour does it?
[root@localhost ~]# ping 10.1.1.1
PING 10.1.1.1 (10.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=6.16 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=3.45 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=3.26 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=4.70 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=2.68 ms
--- 10.1.1.1 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.683/4.055/6.167/1.246 ms
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