frank wang wrote: > Hi, > > I am running fedora 5 and fedora 6 on vmware at the same host machine. > I could get on the internet from fedora 6. However, if I tried to get > to www.gmail.com, firefox just timed out. I do not have any problem on > fedora 5. > > Does anyone know how to solve this problem? > > At the same time, I still could not use yum to update the fedora 6. > The error message is: > > Setting up Install Process > Setting up repositories > Could not retrieve mirrorlist > http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrolist?repo=core-6&arch=i386 error > was > [Error 4] IOError: <ulropen error (110, .....)> > Error: cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core > > Could any help to fix this also? I really need to get the kernel-devel > package to compile the vmtoolbox. > > Thanks > > Frank > I also struggled thtough this. thought the system was obtaining the ip by dhcp, the dns was wrong. verify /etc/resolv.conf is pointing to the correct dns servers. you could point it to OpenDNS. hth rm
