I don't know why Frost wouldn't work... you can still get to http://127.0.0.1:8888/ in your web browser?
Give freenet a few hours to find its feet. Also check whether it has any connections (advanced mode -> open connections). On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 07:23:29PM -0800, kurtis stalnaker wrote: > ok, at first I thought that I was just doing something stupid. Becuase when > I open up the gateway, I try clicking on the freesite links so I can figure > out what the heck this thing does, and I always get a page that says " > Network Error Couldn't retrieve key:blah blah blah whatever buncha > random numbers and letters > hops to live: 10" > Hoping that I could figure it out, I tried changing the hops to live up, > hoping that would give it more time to figure out what it's doing, so 100, > nope, 1000, nope, 999999, nope, so I tried lower, 1, nope. And I stopped > trying that. I try putting in anything on the request data entry, and > everything generates the same network error. I don't have any idea what to > do with request data, so I didn't try that. > > What really made me confused was when I tried to use frost, and it tells > me that it can't connect to my node, and to make sure my internet was on and > freenet was on "both were", so I tried to put in my ip address in the node > address thingy, hoping that would do something, nope, same error on > everything, I try putting in the 8081 port thing that freenet uses, nope, > same thing. > > What do I have to do? What does this software even do? I know it's a p2p > program of sorts, but I have no idea where/how/what to find files on the > internet. I'm not running behind a router, or any kind of proxy, becuase I > don't want to make things even more complicated for myself. I'm pretty > experienced with computers, so I'm hoping that I'm not just making a stupid > mistake. I also disabled my firewall, that dosn't help either, and freenet > never asks to use the internet anyway, which I would think it should, but > like I said I have no idea. > > If you guys have no clue what to do (I wouldn't blame you), can you at > least give me something to try so I can put my feet on the ground? Becuase > I'm drowning in confusion right now, and I really want to figure this thing > out, thanks. > > > --------------------------------- > Brings words and photos together (easily) with > PhotoMail - it's free and works with Yahoo! Mail. > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > Support at freenetproject.org > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > Or mailto:support-request at freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/support/attachments/20060206/fababe09/attachment.pgp>