How to run opkg update

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newmikeman

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I've got a new HDD and am trying to bring the Custom Firmware up. I've been using it for many years with great satisfaction and will want to retrieve existing recordings from the old disk in due course. I have installed the firmware from a USB stick.
However just now I have reformatted the new disk in Maintenance Mode, run fixdisk too. Now I'm back in normal mode and I want to install the Web Interface. this is what I get:
[I]Please select option: webif [/I]
[I]Are you sure you wish to install the initial web interface [Y/N] y [/I]
[I] [/I]
[I]Connection to online repository at [URL='http://hpkg.tv/']http://hpkg.tv[/URL] successful! [/I]
[I] [/I]
[I]Updating package list... [/I]
[I] [/I]
[I]Downloading [URL]http://hpkg.tv/hdrfoxt2/base/Packages.gz[/URL]. [/I]
[I]Collected errors: [/I]
[I] * opkg_download: Failed to download [URL]http://hpkg.tv/hdrfoxt2/base/Packages.gz[/URL], wget returned 1. [/I]
[I] [/I]
[I]Error retrieving package list from the Internet. Please check your connection [/I]
and try again.

This same PC and same browser can connect to other places on the Internet without any problem. Given the little incident in the prior few poats above, I reset the Humax's Internet settings to DHCP and noted that the DNS, Mask and Gateway remained the same as I had previously with my manual IP address.

Can it be anything to do with the "installer"'s links being of the http variety not https? But I can't change those.
Is there any way I can effect the download of Packages.gz manually? I don't know "wget" either.
Oh and I have tried it all using Firefox and Edge as well as my default Chrome.

Thanks for any help you can give me.
(Sorry about the [/I] business, I just wanted to highlight the responses)
 
I've rebooted my router and now I have a different error. It's got past Packages and failed to download epg. Just trying again via the yellow button instead of telnet.
 
Starting again each time it has taken several attempts to get through to the end of the list of its internal steps and it is now rebooting. Maybe something needs a longer timeout given that I'm on full fibre at only 200 mpbs. We do get longish pauses.
Now it has finished rebooting and I'm looking at the familiar webif icons.
Thanks for your patience.
Mike
 
newmikeman said:
Starting again each time it has taken several attempts to get through to the end of the list of its internal steps and it is now rebooting.
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Sounds like you need to get your network fixed, wherever it is broken.
Maybe something needs a longer timeout given that I'm on full fibre at only 200 mpbs.
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No.
We do get longish pauses.
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Longish pauses on what? There shouldn't be any pauses.

And why have you added this to an existing thread pertaining to the Foxsat model when you're referring to a T2? Now moved.
 
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