[ale] Internet applications won't connect in Fedora

[Jim Philips]

Thanks. I got it all working after enabling Network manager.

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 8:22 PM, William Witt <william at witt-family.net>wrote:

> On Sat, 2011-02-26 at 19:43 -0500, Jim Philips wrote:
> > This is driving me nuts. I switched to Fedora 14, because I don't like
> > where Ubuntu is heading. The install went smoothly. But applications
> > like Firefox and Evolution make no connection to the Internet. I can
> > run yum and download software. I can also ping sites and do
> > traceroute. So, I *do* have an Internet connection. It's just that the
> > browser can't seem to see it. Turning the firewall off altogether has
> > no effect.
>
> Sounds like you are using the network service instead of network
> manager.  Short term fix: select file->work offline (to manually toggle
> it back online)  Long ter fix: either accept NM (similar results can be
> achieved to Network service if you make the connection available to all
> users) or google for the about:config/gconf hacks to make
> firefox/evolution non-NM dependent/aware.
>
> Good Luck
> Will
>
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