[olpc-community-support] Browser failed to connect

[phigan]

mattsalz wrote:
> XO seems to be connected( white circle in neighboorhood view - can ping web from terminal without problems) but browser and news reader fail to connect.


Someone else was having a similar issue, and it turned out their router wasn't assigning them DNS.

Can you 'ping yahoo.com' from Terminal? Can you 'yum update' as root? If you can't and you get errors, check your resolv.conf by typing 'cat /etc/resolv.conf'. This is where your DNS server should go in the format:

Code:
nameserver <ip address>


Say your DNS server is 68.2.16.30 (a working DNS server). To manually set it, you can do (as root):

Code:
echo "nameserver 68.2.16.30" > /etc/resolv.conf



Let us know how it goes!

- Joe