[olpc-community-support] Browser failed to connect

[mattsalz]

ping results - before update


PING yahoo.com (216.109.112.135) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=47.8 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=45.7 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=45.6 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=4 ttl=55 time=45.7 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=5 ttl=56 time=45.7 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=6 ttl=55 time=44.8 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=7 ttl=55 time=49.5 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=8 ttl=56 time=46.2 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=9 ttl=56 time=48.5 ms
64 bytes from w2.rc.vip.dcn.yahoo.com (216.109.112.135): icmp_seq=10 ttl=55 time=44.8 ms

--- yahoo.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 received, 0% packet loss, time 9015ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 44.849/46.479/49.580/1.563 ms




yum update was successful 5 programs were updated

olpcrd-0.37-1.20071214gita93121d5cf.i386.rpm
libertas-usb8388-firmware
olpc-utils-0.48-1.i386
sugar.i386 0:0.70.4-1
sugar-datastore.noarch0:0.2.3-1.olpc

(some file names were partially cut off)


/etc/resolv.conf

# generated by NetworkManager, do not edit!

search domain_not_set.invalid


nameserver 192.168.0.1
nameserver 216.165.129.158

After the update I rebooted - the browser is working fine now.

I did not manually set the nameserver.

My son and I hope to learn more about linux on this computer - Thank you for your help. We would be interested  in any addtional information on what was wrong - we are linux newbies but have learned alot in the last few days.

thanks again 

matt and morris

was it a problem with sugar?