Re: Proxy net connection

On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 12:12:26PM +1300, Keith Hopper wrote:
> In article <20040201192603.GB7445 <at> everest.ecs.soton.ac.uk>,
>    Thomas Leonard <tal00r <at> ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
[...]
>      I have had a quiet word with our systems people and, not needing the
> proxy any more, have tried again - with the same result in the log file. 
> 
>      This suggests that the comment on the installation page about
> different compile options may apply - but I'm only guessing. If this might
> be the case, where do I look for the kernel compilation options (I
> installed a binary although I do have the source - 2.2.40) but I must admit
> that trying to find anything in a make file is like reading a foreign
> language - I just cannot understand them.

The Makefile is generated automatically by automake. Nobody can read them 
However, the error indicates that wget failed to download the given
archive, so it's not a problem with the kernel module or with zero-install
itself.

The first thing to try is fetching the given URL manually.

Eg:

$ wget 'http://zero-install.sourceforge.net/.0inst-index.tar.bz2'

Make sure that wget is installed, and that it's in PATH for zero-install.

I should probably get zero-install to report the exact error returned by
wget in future...