Could not connect to gmail in fedora 6? and Could not run YUM

[Kam Leo]

On 4/3/07, frank wang <yixiaodafang at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running fedora 5 and fedora 6 on vmware at the same host machine.
> I could get on the internet from fedora 6. However, if I tried to get
> to www.gmail.com, firefox just timed out. I do not have any problem on
> fedora 5.
>
> Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
>
> At the same time, I still could not use yum to update the fedora 6.
> The error message is:
>
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> Could not retrieve mirrorlist
> http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrolist?repo=core-6&arch=i386 error
> was
> [Error 4] IOError: <ulropen error (110, .....)>
> Error: cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core
>
> Could any help to fix this also? I really need to get the kernel-devel
> package to compile the vmtoolbox.

You do not need internet access to get the base version of
kernel-devel. Have vmware mount either the .iso file or allocate a
physical CD/DVD drive for the FC6 client. In FC6 open a terminal.
Mount the CD/DVD. Use rpm to install kernel-devel. Before you unmount
the CD/DVD make sure that you have installed the C/C++ development
packages.

> Thanks
>
> Frank