Thomas Taylor wrote: <snip> > Hi G; >> *yumex* is seeing the network connection as disabled because it is >> checking for connection thru 'gui'. > > I'm not using a gui network connection but ifup method if that is what > you're saying. ok. then i understand that you are using 'ifup' via a terminal. but, "gui"/"X" effect still applies. yumex does not use a system call to check on network status. at least this is my conclusion from what all i was able to find when i searched for a solution to problem. this was at least 6 months back and i do not recall all of where i check. other than i was using google. and it took a lot of reading to concluded it to be an "X" problem. i did not filed a bug report because i had not seen anyone else posting about problem, so i figured it was something in my installation. when i tried using yumex, it would always fail. it did not matter if i used 'ifup eth0' or 'ifconfig eth0 up', yumex still failed with same error message you gave in your first post. when i ran just 'ifconfig' to check for connection, it showed being connected. *but*, yumex still failed. what i did not try was removing and reinstalling "yumex" and "gui's" for networking. what ever cause is, it is "X" related, because yum still works. i just ran a check at yumex site; http://www.yum-extender.org/blog/ i ran a search for 'connection' and found something that may help. http://www.yum-extender.org/blog/?s=connection show release of 2.9.6 and 2.9.7 have a change of; Added ‘–disable-netcheck’ to bypass the network connection check and the auto disable of non local repos, this can be enabled/disabled in the Preferences. this may be an answer to problem. hth. -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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