Problems with internet connection - Fedora 8
 

Hi!, first of all, I'M A BIG LINUX NOOB!
i installed it for a university work, and so far, a big fan!

but:
in the university i use firefox, yum update, install, pidgin, the works!

in my home (i have a ntech adsl router/modem), i only can use konqueror to surf the web. firefox just blocks, it won't even start the application, pidgin doesn't connect, and,

if i do 'yum update':
"[root@localhost DiogoFigueiredo]# yum update
http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: adobe-linux. Please verify its path and try again"


if i do '/sbin/ifconfig':
"[root@localhost DiogoFigueiredo]# /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:B0:59:4A:2D
inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:b0ff:fe59:4a2d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:8853 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9760 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5542696 (5.2 MiB) TX bytes:1459763 (1.3 MiB)
Interrupt:21 Base address:0x800

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:6305 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6305 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:4800610 (4.5 MiB) TX bytes:4800610 (4.5 MiB)"


i hope this is enougth, if anything more is needed, please tell me witch command to use in terminal, ok? i'm still a noobie ...

thank you for your time!

What happens if you do

re:
 

hi,


[root@localhost DiogoFigueiredo]# yum update --disablerepo=adobe-linux
atrpms 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 177 kB 00:00
atrpms : ################################################## 816/816
http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/8/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.
http://livna.cat.pdx.edu/fedora/8/i3...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (101, 'Network is unreachable')>
Trying other mirror.
http://wftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.
http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 12] Timeout: <urlopen error timed out>
Trying other mirror.
livna 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mir...ra-8&arch=i386 error was
[Errno 4] IOError: <urlopen error (110, 'Connection timed out')>
removing mirrorlist with no valid mirrors: //var/cache/yum/fedora/mirrorlist.txt
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: fedora. Please verify its path and try again




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