Re: Epiphany browser always starts up off-line
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 11:49:19 -0400
From: JoeHill <joehill@teksavvy.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Epiphany browser always starts up off-line
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Arthur Barlow wrote:
> I have a fairly recent clean install of Debian "testing" and everything
> works well. Just one thing I find annoying. Whenever I start up the
> Epiphany web browser, it by default begins in the "work offline" mode.
> There's nothing under preferences that I have found to turn this off. Any
> suggestions?
I always get this same problem, and the sol'n has always been to remove network
manager. NM tells your applications whether you are online or off, and for some
reason it is almost always completely wrong about it.
--
J
Joe,
You're right. I removed the Network Manager package, (which never seemed to work properly anyway), and Epiphany comes up on-line.
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