I have Sacked almost. Everythink seemed to go well.

I installed 14.1 from the DVD
no issues but also no web. I get a consisent error message: "no common encrypton algorithm. Error code: "ssl_error_no_cypher_overlap"

Also,no email some security issue with my username and password at Google. I believe that the problem has a simple answer, but I cannot see what is missing.

Thanks;
Tom McLean
on the wet side USA

What web browsers and email client are you using? My initial guess would be that there is a mismatch between the SSL/TLS version supported by the client and those supported by the server.

Corvette:

I believe you are correct regarding SSI/TSL except I believe my computer has not established any proxy servers for these functions.

I am using Firefox and Thunderbird. Firefox does not show any data for proxy servers in "internet settings".

Some diagnostics would help.

Can you ping a website by name? By ip address (8.8.8.8 is a Google ip easy to remember and good for this test)? Can you ping your router?

What is the output of the command ifconfig -a (you may have to issue the command as root).

Slackware includes a text-browser named lynx. Start lynx from the command line and note any error messages it throws.

Please surround any terminal output with "code" tags, which become available when you click the "Go Advanced" button beneath the "compose post" window.

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In addition to FrankBell's suggestions, could you please indicate what versions of Firefox and Thunderbird you are using? It seems unlikely that Firefox/Thunderbird are the root problems, but you never know.

Thanks Frank.

I will do my homework and return later. This repley is being done on my Kindle.

GMail? Didn't GMAil change the way they handle passwords a couple of years back? Surely it was after 14.1 was released. Perhaps an update to your GMail program will do the trick?

Corvette:
Firefox is release 24 from the slack DVD. urrent is release 65 ?? thunderbird is 24 also. I have this problem with several software packges

Frank:

I could ping your address. No issues. I also tried traceeroute. 8 hops with no izsues as i can see.

ifconfig -a: (I am retyping this from my slachbox)

eth0 flags=4163,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MUTICAST mtu 1500

inet 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 brkatcazt 192.168.0.255

(there was more but looked like not important stuff)

(I tried lynx) I got a blank blue page with the name on the bottom: then
Can't access startfile http://lynx.isc.org/

??

Is there a reason you went with 14.1? 14.2 was released several years after 14.1 and even 14.2 is almost 3 years old.

But the first thing I would check is to make sure you are running the latest patches for 14.1 that Pat has put out. Make sure you have /etc/slackpkg/mirrors pointing to a valid 14.1 mirror (not a -current mirror, as that is the development version for 15.0) and then run the following:

You will most likely need to run lilo (or whatever method you use to ensure your bootloader is up-to-date after a kernel upgrade) and then reboot the system and see if you still have the same problems.

Did you do a full install?

14.1 is old, so the versions on T-bird and FF are old also. 14.2 has much newer and secure versions of FF and T-bird.

If you did not do a full install, I would suggest installing 14.2 for the added security of these programs. If you do, install everything assuming you have aboyt 10 gig of disk space. You can safely leave out a desktop, like KDE or XFCE. The rest will work without one of those desktops not installed. Everything else is needed.

First, I would like to aplogise for the initial double posting. I tried to remove one of them, but there does not seem to be a way to fix this mistake. Maybe a monitor can do it for us.

A Summery to Date:
I installed Slackware 14.1 on my i3220 cpu desktop workstation from the DVD This is a home system with one computer connected to the internet via a Netgear modem/router. The connection to the netgear box is by an motherboard eithernet modem and cable. I sucessfully installed all of the packages on the disk along with the huge kernel. Alll went well until I tried to use the internet and email. I have used Firefox, Seamonkey, and Konqueror for accessing the internet. All return the same error message "ssl error". I used Thunderbird and Konqueror for email, both returned an error "password or username not correct". Both are correct and current.

I have successfully pinged an offsite pc. The configuration seems to be correct in the config files. Th
However the security handshake seems to be failing in both cases.

I would love to upgrade the Slackware release, Firefox revision, Thunderbird revision, and get somemore software. I can not without access to their websites.

Frank:
What do you make from the dianostics?

I would start off with updating the OS to the latest patches. I covered these steps in my previous post. Packages can be updated periodically to update system certificates, which may fix your problem.

Also, make sure your date is set correctly, as an incorrect date can prevent you from connecting to secured websites.

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As a solution that may work temporarily, trying typing "about:config" into the URL/search bar of Firefox. Look for "security.tls.version.min" and "security.tls.version.max" options. If the .max option is not already set to "2" or, preferably, "3", try doing so. According to this website, Firefox 23 supports TLS 1.2 and 1.1, but it is not enabled by default: https://www.projectdatasphere.org/pr...e/html/tls/faq

Bassmadrigal:

I had tried this before with the same result.
I tried the first line just now and could not make a connection to http//carroll.asset.psu.edu. etc.
"failed: Network is unreachable"

It kept trying, so it took a while, but never made it.

Were you able to get to a website by name (e. g. "http://linuxquestions.org")

If you can ping the numerical address of a site but cannot connect to a site by name, you might well have a DNS problem.

What is the output of