On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 1:20 AM, bruce <badouglas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 20:29 -0500, Jim Philips wrote:
>>
>> I installed FC14 today on my laptop. I can connect to the Internet and
>> download software. I can also ping sites out on the Internet from the
>> command line. However, the browser refuses to load any pages.
>
> Which browser? Firefox and Evolution both use NetworkManager to
> determine if the machine is connected. Even if the network is working,
> if NM is not configured to manage the interface, these apps will think
> there is no connection.
are you sure about this???
where is the pointer to docs to state this?
i seriously doubt that firefox has any way of knowing about NM specifically..
but it is curious that you can ping, but not access via FF.. what
happens if you download/check with Opera..
If NM's active but isn't managing an interface, it reports to FF that
the interface is down.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2009-November/042414.html