internet apps don't connect in FC14

James McKenzie jjmckenzie51 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 27 15:32:46 UTC 2011


On 2/27/11 8:15 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 10:07 -0500, Jim Philips wrote:
>>> I didn't do anything with Network Manager at the beginning, nor was
>> I prompted to. Shouldn't there have been a wizard to lead me through
>> settings?
> Is this a fresh install or an upgrade? I would expect a fresh install to
> give some prompting at install time. OTOH an upgrade would tend not to
> mess with existing network settings. However if you feel this is wrong
> then report it to BZ.
>
> Note that many older apps don't ask NM about connectivity, which is why
> they still work. This is definitely confusing as the ones that don't
> work are those which have taken on board the NM model and believe what
> it says.
the real question is does nslookup or dig work?

If not networking is not setup properly.  If it does, then something 
else is not working...

James McKenzie



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