On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 23:52 -0800, bruce wrote:
> but the OP had stated that NM wasn't active..
>
> and i'm still not convinced that NM is "reporting" to Firefox. Which
> isn't to say that FF isn't accessing something to connect to the the
> port.

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The OP didn't mention NM, so he could hardly have said that it wasn't
active. And NM isn't "reporting" anything to Firefox. NM is registering
a service (presumably via D-bus, though I haven't checked) and FF is
picking it up. That's the way desktop apps are supposed to work.

poc

I didn't do anything with Network Manager at the beginning, nor was I prompted to. Shouldn't there have been a wizard to lead me through settings?

By the way, things all work with my wired connection now. Haven't gotten wireless working yet. Need another test.