Couple of softwareproblems in Linpus

Hi! It seems that I have managed to **** up something on my Aspire One with Linpus Lite v1.0.7.E
Don't know what the heck I've done but it cant manage to find the pidgin repository when I'm opening starting pirut, when I'm trying to install for example vlc and sutch.
Anyone familiar with the problem? What should I do?

Also got an another problem today actually. Firefox (preinstalled) cant find any sites even when it's connected to a network with wifi or cable (or both ) And I know it works for other computers standing right next to it!

Anyone?

 

Both situations look likely to be the same - you don't seem to be connecting to the Net.

Open a terminal and try

Code:

ping -c 5 bbc.co.uk

You should get a respons something like this (this is actually on muy main PC ratehr than my One, so it may vary in format a little)

Code:

david@main:~$ ping -c 5 bbc.co.uk
PING bbc.co.uk (212.58.224.138) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from virtual-vip.thdo.bbc.co.uk (212.58.224.138): icmp_seq=1 ttl=119 time=48.7 ms
64 bytes from virtual-vip.thdo.bbc.co.uk (212.58.224.138): icmp_seq=2 ttl=119 time=12.2 ms
64 bytes from virtual-vip.thdo.bbc.co.uk (212.58.224.138): icmp_seq=3 ttl=119 time=15.7 ms
64 bytes from virtual-vip.thdo.bbc.co.uk (212.58.224.138): icmp_seq=4 ttl=119 time=14.9 ms
64 bytes from virtual-vip.thdo.bbc.co.uk (212.58.224.138): icmp_seq=5 ttl=119 time=13.0 ms

--- bbc.co.uk ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4005ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 12.257/20.955/48.748/13.954 ms

If you don't, you're either not finding the network at all, or you're not able to resolve the bbc.co.uk bit into the numbers the Internet needs. To check the latter point, then try this:

Code:

ping -c 5 212.58.224.138

You should get a similar response but without the 'bbc.co.uk' bit, just the numbers. If not, then you're not reaching the Net at all.

Let me know what happens, and hen we can try things to solve whatever the problem turns out to be.

 

Thanks for trying to help me

Did:

Code:

ping -c 5 bbc.co.uk

Response:

Code:

ping: unknown host bbc.co.uk

Then tried

Code:

ping -c 5 212.58.224.138

Response:

Code:

PING 212.58.224.138 (212.58.224.138) 56(84) bytes of data
From 192.168.1.1 icmp_seq=1 Destination Net Unreachable
From 192.168.1.1 icmp_seq=2 Destination Net Unreachable
From 192.168.1.1 icmp_seq=3 Destination Net Unreachable
From 192.168.1.1 icmp_seq=4 Destination Net Unreachable
From 192.168.1.1 icmp_seq=5 Destination Net Unreachable

--- 212.58.224.138 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 0 recieved, +5 errors, 100% packet loss, time 3999ms

Seems like it doesnt connect to the net then, weird since it works fine on my Toshiba laptop with Windows XP.
Any suggestions?
BTW: The problems with the pidgin repository came up a few days earlier, and at that point I still had access to the internet.

Regards

 

OK, let's look a bit deeper.

In the terminal again, try these two commands:

Code:

ifconfig
iwconfig

These will provide some of the network and wireless settings and may give some clues.

What sort of wireless encryption are you using, and can you get a connection if you connect to your router by wire instead of wireless?

 

It's a open wlan, no encryption.
It did'nt work with wire just a couple of days ago, but when I tried now, it did work! Not the wireless though..

Code:

ifconfig

Response:

Code:

ath0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:22:69:03:A5:89  
          inet addr:192.168.1.103  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0 
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1 
          RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
          TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:1254 (1.2 KiB)  TX bytes:684 (684.0 b) 

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1E:68:B1:F6:ED  
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1 
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) 
          Interrupt:17 Base address:0x6000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0 
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1 
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) 

wifi0     Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-22-69-03-A5-89-F8-55-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1 
          RX packets:246 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:9 
          TX packets:87 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:199 
          RX bytes:22480 (21.9 KiB)  TX bytes:4678 (4.5 KiB) 
          Interrupt:18 Memory:e04e0000-e04f0000

Also:

Code:

iwconfig

Response:

Code:

lo        no wireless extensions. 

eth0      no wireless extensions. 

wifi0     no wireless extensions. 

ath0      IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"linksys"  Nickname:"" 
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:12:17:B7:58:0D   
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:18 dBm   Sensitivity=1/3  
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off 
          Power Management:off 
          Link Quality=94/94  Signal level=-1 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm 
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0 
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0 

 

Hmm. That lot looks reasonable; two more I should have asked for:

Code:

sudo route
sudo cat /etc/resolv.conf

This will tell us where the One thinks it should be going for a net connection (though that looks likely to be OK), and where it's supposed to be getting name resolution from. Sincve it can ping the numeric address but not the bbc.co.uk, it looks as though it's the name resolution which is letting you down.

 

Code:

sudo route

Response:

Code:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.1.0     *               255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 ath0
default         192.168.1.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 ath0

Code:

sudo cat /etc/resolv.conf

Response:

Code:

# generated by NetworkManager, do not edit!

nameserver 192.168.1.1

But when I'm connected by wire everything should work fine right?
Well, when I (as root) try:

Code:

yum install vlc

Response:

Code:

livna                     100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00     
fedora                    100% |=========================| 2.1 kB    00:00     
rpmfusion-free-updates    100% |=========================| 2.7 kB    00:00     
rpmfusion-free            100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00     
updates-newkey            100% |=========================| 2.3 kB    00:00     
[url]http://rpm.pidgin.im/fedora/8/i386/repodata/repomd.xml:[/url] [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
Trying other mirror.
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: pidgin. Please verify its path and try again

What could be wrong here? Wifi-problem first ofcourse

 

omg, sorry David! Just discovered that the router seems to be the problem.
But it does'nt solve my repository-problem sadly

 

The repo problem is coming up because there is no repository on rpm.pidgin.im for fedora 8. Try going to http://rpm.pidgin.im in a browser, and navigate from there: there's a fedora directory but only for versions prior to Fedora 8.

http://www.pidgin.im/download/fedora_core/ says you need to get later rpms from the Fedora developers - i.e. from the standard Fedora repo.