On 30/11/09 09:55, Terry Barnaby wrote:
On 11/29/2009 11:30 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 09:10 +0000, Terry Barnaby wrote:
>> On 11/28/2009 08:35 AM, Rakesh Pandit wrote:
>>> 2009/11/28 Terry Barnaby wrote:
>>>> If the NetworkManager service is running, but not managing the current
>>>> network connection, then Firefox starts up in offline mode.
>>>>
>>>> Is this a bug in NetworkManager or Firefox ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> This is odd behaviour and needs to be fixed. I would suggest open up a
>>> bug against firefox. I know one can change
>>> toolkit.networkmanager.disable preference, but it is a PITA for our
>>> users. One of use cases is: Sometime network manager does not connect
>>> me via my CDMA usb modem (in case signal is weak), but wvdial does and
>>> once I switch from NM to wvdial, my firefox gets to offline mode,
>>> which I don't expect it to as I am connected.
>>>
>> Ok, filed as: 542078
>
> NetworkManager is intended to control the default internet connection.
> If NetworkManager cannot control the default internet connection, then
> you may not want to use NetworkManager.
>
> In your case, you're using a mobile broadband device. The real bug here
> is that for whatever reason, NM/MM aren't connecting your modem, and we
> should follow up on that bug instead.
>
> Dan
>
I am not using a mobile broadband device. The network connection my systems
use is not just the Internet it is a local network LAN connection that also
serves the internet. Most of my systems use a local network server which
provides NIS, /home and /data using NFS and VPN etc. I normally use the
service "network" to bring up wired or wireless networking for this.
Fedora,
by default, uses NetworkManager to manage all network devices though. I use
the service "network" as, for some reason, the NetworkManager service is
started after the netfs and other services are started. Is there a reason
for this ??
Don't know about the reason, but on my work desktop (where we have LDAP
auth and NFS home dirs), I can still use NetworkManager in F12:
* Make sure your LAN interfaces are marked "available to all users" in
NetworkManager (I think this corresponds to "ONBOOT=yes" in
/etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth*)
* Add to /etc/sysconfig/network:
NETWORKWAIT=true
This should bring the network up before netfs.
Unfortunately I've had to revert to the old network service because I
need bridged networking for my virt guests; there was a plan to support
this in NetworkManager in F-12
(
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NetworkManagerBridging) but
nothing seems to have happened with that, though I see there is a
similar feature proposed for F-13
(
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Shared_Network_Interface).
Paul.