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| Summary: | network manager does not work with a dsl connection | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0 | Reporter: | Cezary Sliwa <sliwa> |
| Component: | Network | Assignee: | E-mail List <gnome-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Major | ||
| Priority: | P2 - High | ||
| Version: | Final | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | openSUSE 11.0 | ||
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| Found By: | --- | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
Networkmanager-GNOME or Networkmanager-kde? gnome *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 404359 *** I think you made a mistake marking this bug a duplicate, you probably meant bug 404356 a duplicate of this one. Cezary, how did you set the connection up? AFAIK NetworkManager does not support DSL connections. Reassigning to the NetworkManager maintainer. NM should support DSL, but not ones defined in yast (which makes this bug different from 404359). To define a DSL connection, right click on the nm-applet, select "Edit Connections..." and go to DSL tab where you can define new DSL connections. Once that is done, the created connection can be activated from the applet's left-click menu. If that does not work, please attach your /var/log/NetworkManager log file here. No response in more than 4 weeks. Please reopen if you are able to provide the requested information. I will try to configure the connection with Network Manager, but the problem as described in the initial comment is that Firefox starts offline, despite an existing connection. Firefox (as many other desktop programs) use NetworkManager to query whether the machine is online. NetworkManager knows about all the active devices that it has activated. It does not and can not know about devices which are activated manually. So if you use shell scripts ("traditional method", yast) to configure your dsl device, NM will not know about it and will tell the system "offline".
That is why you'll need to right-click on nm-applet icon, choose "Edit Connecitons...", got to DSL tab and add a new connection. Then from the left-click menu from the nm-applet, choose the connection configuration you just created to activate it.
I think it is exactly the opposite case: when the "traditional method is chosen", network manager icon is not shown and firefox works online. And what about Ethernet connections, aren't they seen by Network Manager? Then, a DSL connection should be seen also. I think the check is simple: if there is a default route, we have an Internet connection. Seems this bug was fixed in years that passed. I tried dsl connection and all worked well. Please report a new issue if you still can reproduce it. |
I have a DSL connection set up and the network works fine, but Network Manager does not see this connection ("No network connection") and Firefox starts in the off-line mode. I can not switch on/off the connection with Network Manager either.