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Hi..
Beautiful distro and easy install BUT with my networking is functioning as expected from the control center I choose to configure media sources and it will not contact anything just sits there.
As a result I cannot install any software or updates. I'm not sure how to proceed from here. Once this is resolved I think I'll be a very happy camper. If anybody can give me a clue as to where to go next I'd appreciate the help. Thank You....

Even with the network configured, I've always had to put in my password and tell it to connect the first time. Do you have a network icon on the taskbar by the clock?

Which DE are you running?

Running KDE Plasma, and yes I opened a terminal window and can ping Mageia.org, then opened Firefox and was able to browse anywhere I wanted to go....
Upon install, it says the network connection passes the test, next tries to contact Mageia Website to get the list of available mirrors... and hangs there...

Hello layland and welcome to Mageia.

sorry there is a hiccup.

anyway have a look here => viewtopic.php?f=36&t=4231.
read especially the 1st linked entry in the first paragraph, ( https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Software_management ) and find the sub heading : Choosing a specific media source.

then have look here => https://mirrors.mageia.org/

you can manually add a repo, using the info from the mirrors.mageia page e.g. (as root)

Code: Select all

urpmi.removemedia -a
urpmi.addmedia --distrib 'ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/mageia/distrib/$VERSION/$ARCH'

let us know how you get on.

regards

I appreciate your time and effort in trying to help.
I tried the above in a terminal window and the result was :
unable to access the distribution medium (no media.cfg file found_ unable to add medium

Found the solution here.
The solution is posted here: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=8788
Running urpmi.addmedia --distrib --wget 'ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/mageia/distrib/$RELEASE/$ARCH' fixes the issue.
Please add an official distribution meda in the base box. If someone wants to opt out of it, they can remove/replace it. "principle of least surprise" and all..

Thank You !!!

Maybe you like me and some others need to switch to using wget generally to fetch updates
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_8_Err ... g_software

When everything works, default media sources are supposed to be set up and just work.