Fedora 10 incorrect "no network connection"

[Don Russell]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:45, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 10:31 -0700, Don Russell wrote:
> > Usually I ssh into my Linux machine and use the CLI but sometimes I do
> > log on from the attached keyboard/screen. In those cases, every time I
> > start Firefox, it starts in offline mode. There is also an icon in
> > the toolbar that says "no network connection", even though there is.
> > It's wired.
> >
> > When I use the Firefox option to turn off "offline mode",
> > everything is fine, until I close/restart Firefox.
> >
> > And the network connection works fine... I can always connect from
> > other machines via ssh, connect to it's web server etc...
> >
> > What can I do to correct whatever it is that's reporting "no network
> > connection"?
>
> This can happen if you're running NetworkManager but haven't configured
> it to manage your connection. Some apps, including Firefox and
> Evolution, think that because NM thinks it's not online it should be
> believed.
>
> The fix is either to not use NM, or to tell it to manage the connection.
> To do the latter, run system-config-network, run Edit on the interface
> line and tick the box that says "Controlled by NetworkManager".
>


Thank you, that solved the problem. :-)
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