Hi jggimi,
Well, here we are a couple days later and I've got FireFox successfully installed (107) after finding out the following silly little error that I needed to fix beforehand. I used this to figure it out:
https://obsd.solutions/en/blog/2022/...led/index.html
After using vi to make it point at ftp.*.* instead of cd.*.* it started drawing down FFox without issue.
As for Syspatch, I'm not sure how it definitely resolved, but I think it just needed more time to connect and do its checking/downloading. I use inet autoconf now instead of dhcclient or whatever it was, but for both I'd still get full ping results for 1.1.1.1.
Now, my new issue is getting ExpressVPN client connected to my OpenBSD system using the .ovpn files I've manually downloaded in readiness. The problem now is that I can't copy (CP) the .ovpn files across to the /etc/openvpn directory that I've created. I'll make a new thread about it since its such a different topic. I'd appreciate any help!