[Sugar-devel] Cannot connect to internet on school server

[Adam Holt]

+server-devel

Thanks guys for yr insane dedication ;)
 On Aug 1, 2014 12:37 PM, "Jerry Vonau" <me at jvonau.ca> wrote:

>
>
> > On August 1, 2014 at 8:39 AM Tony Anderson <tony at olenepal.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi, Jerry
> >
>
> Hi Tony,
>
> > I think what you are describing may be Daniel Drake's 'enhancement' to
> > allow one network for
> > internet and local access. I have never used that and so do not know
> > what he did in that script.
>
> I had a single interface, kickstart driven, usb based working install as
> far back as mid 2010[1]. Remember I had a small piece of input into the
> networking layout[2]. When the AA[3] went away so did the need to support
> them allowing for the revised networking layout that is found in the latest
> XS.
>
> > In
> > the day, I actually wrote it in Nepal (you can tell my code - it is the
> > ugliest).
> >
> > I did send an email with information and am available to help if it is
> > needed. I have not gotten a response as yet.
> >
>
> Why not keep the conversation on the list?
>
> > On a separate topic. I understand from the credits that you wrote the
> > mkusbinstall script.
>
> That was written before Fedora's livecd-creator grew the ability to handle
> install isos[4].
>
> > Among
> > other things, udev has been modified so the script no longer works.
>
> Depends on what your environment is when you run it, lots of things changed
> since F9, might have better luck with this one[5]. With the above ability
> being provide by Fedora the need to maintain the script fell by the
> wayside.
>
> > I am
> > trying to get the script
> > to run on an XO (build 13) to create the XS usb stick.
>
> This stick is to run on the XO or a different machine? Think you would have
> better luck using livecd-iso-to-disk.sh from F18 pointing to the install
> iso.
>
> > My other problem
> > is that the new Intel NUC
> > is using uefi instead of a bios - I think this needs to be solved since
> > uefi will probably appear on many or all new desktops.
> >
>
> That would be a usb based booting issue, might be solved with the later
> livecd-iso-to-disk.sh (--efi) from F18, not sure of what version is
> supplied by CentOS.
>
> > My current strategy is to rewrite the script in Python so I can see what
> > you did step-by-step.
> >
>
> What do you want to do? Once you have a booting key, updating the install
> routine via a kickstart file, and/or a yum repo on the usbkey becomes much
> easier.
>
>
> > Yours,
> >
> > Tony
> >
>
> Jerry
>
> 1. http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/olpc-au/XS/F9/
> 2.
>
> http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/xs-config/log/?id=88cc7c3a925349397195fd32af3383cf1e520d04&qt=grep&q=vonau
> 3. http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Active_Antenna
> 4.
>
> https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/livecd/commit/tools/livecd-iso-to-disk.sh?id=09678eb9284f2df7618c4609998fd3bd95787251
> 5.
>
> http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/olpc-au/XS/F9/XS-AU/tools/mkusbinstall-F12forXSAU
>
> > On 08/01/2014 01:34 PM, Jerry Vonau wrote:
> > >
> > >> On August 1, 2014 at 5:51 AM Tony Anderson <tony at olenepal.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Jerry,
> > >>
> > >> As I understand it he is using XS-0.7. XS-0.7 has two configured ports
> > >> The first is for the LAN, the
> > >> second is for the WAN.
> > > Only after running xs-setup-network do 2 interfaces get configured. You
> > > can
> > > setup a single interface XS for testing.
> > >
> > >> If he follows your suggestion he will not have a
> > >> network connection to the
> > >> laptops.
> > > He will via the one network connection.
> > >
> > >> The XS-0.7 xs-setup-network sets up the second port to accept
> > >> DHCP from the ISP. If a
> > >> server has one ethernet port, the second port may need to be accessed
> > >> via a usb-ethernet adapter.
> > >>
> > > I know how the network is laid out, but he has one interface to use on
> > > the
> > > VM.
> > >
> > >> Yours,
> > >>
> > >> Tony
> > > Since you know what he wants to do, you can do the hand holding.
> > >
> > > Jerry
> > >
> > >> On 07/31/2014 07:49 PM, sugar-devel-request at lists.sugarlabs.org
> wrote:
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> > >>>       1. Re: Cannot connect to internet on school server (Athar
> > >>>Haque)
> > >>>       2. Re: Pootle SOS (Martin Abente)
> > >>>
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > >>>
> > >>> Message: 1
> > >>> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 23:01:59 +0530
> > >>> From: Athar Haque <findathar at gmail.com>
> > >>> To: Jerry Vonau <me at jvonau.ca>
> > >>> Cc: Sugar-dev Devel <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> > >>> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Cannot connect to internet on school
> > >>> server
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> > >>>
> > >>> Hey,
> > >>>
> > >>> I followed the steps and was successful with those but the same error
> > >>> persists till now though I am able to ping 'schoolserver'.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Jerry Vonau <me at jvonau.ca> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> Sorry for the delay, if you only have one network interface by using
> > >>>> xs-setup-network you have given your only interface the internal
> > >>>> address
> > >>>> that has no gateway. Here is what I would do:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> 1) stop the network
> > >>>> 2) rename ifcfg-eth0 to ifcfg-eth0.old
> > >>>> 3) rename ifcfg-eth1 to ifcfg-eth0
> > >>>> 4) edit the renamed ifcfg-eth0 file changing DEVICE=eth1 to
> > >>>> DEVICE=eth0
> > >>>> 5) start the network
> > >>>>
> > >>>> That should give you a default route to the internet when viewing
> > >>>> the
> > >>>> routing tables with "ip route ls". You might have to change some
> > >>>> other
> > >>>> files if you can't ping the hostname 'schoolserver'
> > >>>>
> > >>>> good luck,
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Jerry
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>> On July 30, 2014 at 5:33 PM Athar Haque <findathar at gmail.com>
> > >>>>> wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> Hey,
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> I use my lan connection for internet.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> PFA the contents of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*.
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Jerry Vonau <me at jvonau.ca> wrote:
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>> Hi,
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Before I try to guide you, can you tell me the number of network
> > >>>>>> connections the VM has and what the contents of the
> > >>>>>> /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-* files are.
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>> Jerry
> > >>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> On July 29, 2014 at 4:14 PM Athar Haque <findathar at gmail.com>
> > >>>>>>> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> I recently installed XO school server in a VM for testing of my
> > >>>>>>> project.
> > >>>>>>> I
> > >>>>>>> have followed steps on -
> > >>>>>>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Installing_Software.
> > >>>>>>> But couldn't connect to the internet. I have activated standard
> > >>>>>>> networking
> > >>>>>>> by running the command
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> *xs-setup-network.*
> > >>>>>>> When I run yum update. I get this error -
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> Could not retrieve mirrorlist
> > >>>>>>> http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=x86_64&repo=os
> error
> > >>>>>>> was14: PYCURL ERROR 6 - "Couldn't resolve host
> > >>>>>>> 'mirrorlist.centos.org'"Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for
> > >>>>>>> repo:
> > >>>>>>> base
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> I can't find a solution to it and if anyone knows how to fix
> > >>>>>>> this,
> > >>>>>>> it
> > >>>>>>> would
> > >>>>>>> be of great help.
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> --
> > >>>>>>> Regards,
> > >>>>>>> Nazrul
> > >>>>>>> irc - native93
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> > >>>>> --
> > >>>>> Regards,
> > >>>>> Nazrul
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