Help: No internet connection

[Simon Schneebeli]

Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Simon Schneebeli writes:
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>> Hello all,
>>
>> After having used Ubuntu since almost more than three years, I 
>> decided to give Fedora a try. The installation went perfectly fine. 
>> Everything was perfectly recognised. Now I face one big problem: I 
>> can't manage to connect to the internet.
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>> Through the network connection, I manage to establish a connection 
>> with my wireless ADSL model. It also works through a wired 
>> connection. Ping works. But neither Firefox nor any other programme 
>> manage to establish a connection.
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> Define "ping works".
If I type at the command line "ping google.com" it gets an answer...
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> Define "manage to establish a network connection".
When I change network connection from wireless to wired, a popup tells 
me "connection established" and the icon in the toolbar says "connected"...
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>> Any idea what the problem may be? I guess you need additional 
>> information. Which one exactly?
>
> The starting point would be the exact error message you are getting 
> from Firefox.
Need to restart into fedora to check this out. Give me two minutes...

Simon
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