Re: mail and web start in offline mode

[JoeHill <joehill@teksavvy.com>]

Thilo Six wrote: 

> JoeHill wrote the following on 25.10.2008 22:14
> 
> > When I start either my mail client, Claws, or Firefox web browser, they are
> > in offline mode.
> > 
> > I'm thinking this is not a setting in either of those apps, since I cannot
> > get Firefox to change even by setting 'online' to 'true' in about:config,
> > and I'm looking for where this setting might be in either a system or
> > desktop config, but I cannot find anything that relates to this in
> > networking properties or in the settings for XFCE.
> > 
> > Any ideas where I can look for something like this?  
> 
> You probably have 'network-manager' installed.
> e.g. if you have your connection setup via dhcp in '/etc/network/interfaces'
> then the above described will happen (at least here it has).
> 
> If you don't rely on the functionality of 'network-manager' you can then just
> purge it.

Oh, sweet. That did it!

Thanks so much, I was starting to get a little...frustrated. 

-- 
Joe