thanks for the help m8.....i did open up the opkg.conf in an editor and could see all the incorrect address in there. problem was i would have thought it would pick up the correct one anyway and was unsure whether to mess about in there too much. thing is there was other 'stuff' in that file so have no idea what exactly the contents should look like.
i aslo had no idea what your command was doing untill now. you were basically 'editing' the file with the correct contents.
anyway here is file contents after i 'cleaned' it up a bit. can you correct it for me. thanks.
src/gz snapshots http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/8.09/atheros/packages
dest root /
dest ram /tmp
lists_dir ext /var/opkg-lists
option overlay_root /jffs
src X-Wrt http://downloads.x-wrt.org/xwrt/kamikaze/8...theros/packages