[Ilugc] firefox10 network manager does not know that network is running

[steve]

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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