Stevens wrote: > Hey, here's another problem that I've seen. I installed 10.2 on my > mom's 'puter and each time Firefox is started, it starts in "offline" > mode. That is damned irritationg to me and somewhat confusing to her. > > Mihamina suggested "You should just make the Firefox home page either a > blank page or http://localhost/ (if a web server is set up) or file:/// as > last choice." > > That might work, but since Mom is dialed in and on the net before Firefox > is started, she expects it to be in online mode and the home page to be > what she wants it to be. > > Can someone explain why Firefox stays offline even when a dialup connection > is made?
So most probably NetworkManager is activated on the system but not used for the dialup connection. This is a known issue since NetworkManager still thinks the machine is offline. If NetworkManager is not needed (e.g. for WiFi) you should deactivate it, which would fix the problem. Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
