Can’t remember what the work around was for this problem (disalbe or uninstall Network Manager) , but it has been around for a while , when using KInternet dialer Firefox will not stay in Online mode , I believe it has something to do with Network Manager and Firefox , was around in 10.3 and still in 11.1 .
Found this : https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=175896
How do I create this in Firefox use entry ,browser.ignoreNM and boolean , true ?
From Bug Report it states it was fixed except for dial up modem , so how do you fix for dial up modems ?
- gib62588 wrote, On 01/03/2009 07:06 PM:
> How do I create this in Firefox (boolean , true ?)
Type “about:config” as the URL. Then right click the main window, “New”, “String” etc.
HTH
Uwe
I think if you go into Network Devices / Network Settings and change Global Options from “Connect with Network Manager” to “Traditional Method With IFUP” this should fix the problem.
Because I think it’s Network Manager going offline that’s causing the problem.
The Firefox about:config option has never worked for me to fix the problem.
I am sorry , I did not make my question clear on the about:config question , I was asking if the syntax was correct for that option .
I did the Firefox about:config tweak for speed , surprised it was not already there .
Will try the suggested ifup and see what happens .
In 11.0 I just removed NM and everything was fine , NM still needs some work where Aircards are concerned , they are modems but high speed modems , NM treats them as dial up still , a connection through Kinternet is twice as fast as NM , maybe IP stack ?
Ok something else going on here , I disabled NM and started KInternet app , still get page loading errors , page not loading , did Speed Test through Speakeasy and DSL reports , both show good line through put and decent speed , about 1.2-1.5 D and 500-700 U .
So something in KDE 4 is causing Firefox to not respond to redirects , checked Firewall , everything fine there , ports , MTU , etc …
Can put same card in same room into different laptop with PCLinuxOS 2008 MiniMe (KDE 3.5) and it flies , no problems , no stuttering , pages load as expected , what the heck is up here ?
Think there may be a memory leak in KDE4 and Firefox , or something .
Hi,
I had a similar problem and solved with:
about:config -> toolkit.networkmanager.disable
Hope this helps,
faina
faina, i also have been facing this problem, i tried what you suggested still not working… is there any other way?
I run a wireless broadband card and use kinternet to connect. Here are three things you can try that may get your connection running at normal speed:
- Try this:
Just an information if anybody else has this problem:
After installing openSuSE 11.0 I noticed that my internet speed is somewhere near 1kB/s, connected to a 2Mbit DSL router. After searching a bit regarding my network card (Realtek RTL-8139), I noticed that I have to set a system control parameter to get full speed back. The setting I had to apply was:
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling -> set to 0
After setting this speed was back at 200kB/s
Checking your current setting can be done as root using this command:
cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling
Setting it temporarily for testing by using this command:
echo “0” >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling
and setting it forever can be done by adding the following line to /etc/sysctl.conf
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling = 0
and running “sysctl -p” once.
I hope this helps other having similar problems.
Rainer
OR
- Disable ipv6 in Yast / network devices / network settings
OR
- Disable compression in your /etc/ppp/options file by adding the following line
nodeflate
Funny speed is not the issue , I have good speed for a Aircard , I am right at the outer most limit of the card (1.5 mb) , speed of the browser transferring info once link is clicked or a memory leak between the browser and the OS !
Address Not Found , click it again , there it is , just where it was left at .
Again this is a big issue , 11.0 was fine on the same machine , same card , same location , same speed , just different OS (SuSE 11.1).
May be a show stopper for me , I have been a SuSE fan for over 10 years , Linux for 15 and this is the second most annoying issue I have experienced .
Thanks for the info foresthill .
Don’t see compression entry in etc/ppp/options , and shouldn’t the idle be set to 0 (zero) , means never ?
If it was working in 11, I doubt this is the problem.
But for future reference, you add the entire line “nodeflate” with no # in front of it.
For some reason, my wireless broadband card can’t load any web pages unless this is done.
Did you check your baud rate? YAST tried to set mine at 9600 before I changed it.
Thanks for your help with this issue , “nodeflate” after header in file of course , # comment out ?
SO , N.M. can be disabled through YaST/Network Devices / Network Settings and change Global Options from “Connect with Network Manager” to “Traditional Method With IFUP” , fixes “Off line Mode” issue , allows KInternet to connect and installs smpppd, then uncheck ipV6 .
Thanks again for the info .
I’m still not completely clear on what precisely your problem is, just throwing out a few suggestions of things that have helped for me speed up my connection.
I suppose I should have tried to pinpoint the problem better before suggesting anything.
My first time to use Firefox today after using openSUSE 11.1 KDE4 64 for a week now (my Los Angeles Times Crossword which uses flashplayer wouldn’t come up in Konqueror) and I noticed that offline mode is ticked when I start up the browser. I think I first noticed this problem in 3.0.1(?). My easy fix was the usual:
in Firefox blank address bar type: about:config
search for toolkit.networkmanager.disable
double click on the entry to change value from “false” to “true”. Just thought I’d mention this in case someone else was having the same problem - as one of the previous posters said, it’s a networkmanager and Firefox, err, oddity.
Orba