Re: Suse 10.3 strange internet stuff

Thanks for both replies - to clarify, this was a clean install (I
tried an upgrade first, and ...) and I have also tried reinstalling
Firefox but with no luck.

Perhaps the following might illustrate the problem a bit more:

Firefox times out accessing Google but not Amazon, as examples,
Konqueror can see both no problem.

More problematically, when I try and access external repositories - ie
software not on the source DVD - either by "one click" install or by
trying to add reposiitries in YaST, I get nowhere.

Specifically, YaST will download the list of comunity repositries but
when I actually try to add anything other than "openSuSE build
service" versions I get the error:

'Adding repository Main Repository (NON-OSS) failed'

Similarly, going to the openSuSE webpages and trying to download
nVIDIA drivers gets as far as Downloading > Refreshing repository
NVIDIA then fails with the "detailed" error message

Curl error for 'http://download.nvidia.com/opensuse/10.3/repodata/
repomd.xml':
Error code:
Error message: connect() timed out!

Also, if I try to install codecs from Kaffiene directly I get the
message in Konqueror:

Unable to connect
Your computer must have a working Internet connection in order to
donwload support for this type of multimedia.

Which is a bit frustrating, given that I demonstrably do have a
working internet question, its just somehow not being seen.

Thanks for any suggestions you can give me with this - I'm still at
the "gosh, that's strange" stage but I can feel a bout of banging my
head on the desk approaching ...

:-)

G

PS Houghi - I know, I know - got to get in there and play with the
command line eventually - its just that I still have nightmares about
DOS ...

Darklight wrote:

houghi wrote:

GraemeK wrote:
Just upgraded from suse 10 to opensuse 10.3 and I'm having problems
with the web. This is an AMD 64 system using an on-board ethernet card
and a cheapo external DSL router. ISP is (aaagh) BTinternet, GUI is
KDE.

Well, upgrades from SLES and SLED to openSUSE are not tested, so you
could expect thing to go wrong. ;-)

Basically, the thing works, BUT - using Firefox I find I can't log on
(consistent, inevitable time out errors) to google or various other
sites which work perfectly OK in Konqueror. Trying to access on-line
repositories via YAST always results in failure - gets to the stage of
"refreshing the XXX repository" then the "cannot access instalation
media" error with the detail "couldn't connect to host". Thereafter
either the PC hangs or YAST helpfully informs me that the download was
"partially successful"

Re-install firefox.

PS Started with Suse 8.2 but still a command line phobe

That is only because people make it sound scared. Install bb and run bb
in your KDE or GNOME and see how cool CLI can be. :-D

houghi
doing a clean install might solve your problems i have found doing upgrades
problimatic

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