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

[Athar Haque]

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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> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> > Nazrul
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-- 
Regards,
Nazrul
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