[Ilugc] firefox10 network manager does not know that network is running
- From: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx (steve)
- Date: Sun Feb 15 22:49:48 2009
Hi Kenneth,
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
hi,
I normally access the internet through my tata indicom usb modem. In
fedora10 I go to system-network and activate the modem. Network is up,
email, ssh, http etc all work, but network manager icon shows a red X.
This is because, the configured network interface (your usb modem) is not
'controlled' by Network Manager (ie: if you run system-config-network, select
the interface, and click on 'Edit', in the 'General' tab, you'll see
'Controlled
by NetworkManager' unchecked)
So if
I try to run the gui software installer, it says 'no network found'. On
starting firefox and kmail, both go into offline mode because network
manager tells them that there is no network. I have to manually poke them
to get them to work.
This is a known issue with Firefox[1].
I demo'd the bug at gnunify, and the best brains of RH
tried to do something. So far no success, but the asked me to post the bug
here so they could reply when fixed.
Workaround (or fix ...depends on the way you see it) is,
a. In firefox, go to "about:config"
b. search for "toolkit.networkmanager.disable"
c. set it's value to True
I am sorry, but i don't know about Kmail. ...but for those of you seeing the
same problem in Thunderbird, you'd have to go to
"Edit->Preferences->Advanced->General->config editor" and do steps (b) & (c)
above.
Hope that helps,
regards,
- steve
[1]
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Toolkit.networkmanager.disable
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