I’ve installed Fedora 7 on a VMware virtual machine running under XP SP 2. I’m unsuccessful accessing the internet with Firefox 2.0.0.3.
I’ve configured the proxy settings as follows:
In Fedora, I clicked on System, Preferences, Internet and Network, Network Proxy.
For HTTP Proxy and Secure HTTP Proxy, I entered the name of our proxy server (www-proxy.domain.com) and the port (not 8080, but the correct port number for our configuration). I used the same entries I use successfully for FF and IE on my XP system.
In Details, I entered my Windows domain username in domain\username format.
These are the only changes I’ve made since the installation.
I cannot access the Internet with Firefox. Regardless of the site I try to reach, I get a “Connection has timed out” error.
I installed Fedora from an F-7-i386-DVD.iso file. When I attempt to run Applications / Add/Remove Software, it appears the application is looking at the Internet instead of the .iso. I get at Retrieving Software Information window with a progress bar that doesn’t got past 20% or so. Eventually I get the error “Unable to retrieve software information. This could be caused by not having a network connection available.” I remember from my previous attempts with FC5 that the Add/Remove wants to look at an Internet repository for software. (I was hoping F7 would look to the installation source before hitting the net, but apparently this isn’t the case.) I suspect the proxy settings are also causing the problem with Add/Remove.
So, any guesses what I’ve done wrong with the proxy settings? Lacking that, any ideas how I can point Add/Remove back to the ISO so I can install the software that’s there?
Thanks.
