Gnome applications could not connect to college Wifi using netcfg

Abhishek_Harlalka · 2012-05-28 10:43:45

Hi, I am using netcfg to connect to college wifi to access internet and i can access internet in CLI applications (pacman, clam), firefox and thunderbird but online account settings, gwidder and other gnome apps cannot access internet.
I also installed networkmanager some days before but then i uninstalled it.

Inxsible · 2012-05-28 14:17:37

and what have you tried in order to fix this problem ?

Abhishek_Harlalka · 2012-05-28 15:47:47

I don't have an idea what is causing it and i also googled it whole day but could not find a hint. that's why i have created this new thread. till now i have done nothing.

alexcriss · 2012-05-28 16:01:34

It might be that Gnome apps rely on NetworkManager for knowing wheter they are connected to the Internet or not. For example, evolution has a terminal switch option to disable checking for network connectivity and force its status as "online". I had to resort to it when I needed to disable NetworkManager for working purposes in my lab.

Having said that, when you had NetworkManager, did Gnome apps work?

Abhishek_Harlalka · 2012-05-28 16:30:05

It was working when i was using netcfg before networkmanager. So, i think after uninstalling networkmanager it made some changes to system which is causing problem.

Inxsible · 2012-05-28 17:36:41

check your pacman logs to see what you installed/upgraded, your dmesg and xorg logs and report if anything is amiss.

Abhishek_Harlalka · 2012-05-30 08:16:16

I don't thinks these logs have anything relevant. I tried evolution and it is working!!

Last edited by Abhishek_Harlalka (2012-05-30 08:16:32)

skanky · 2012-05-30 09:01:59

Did you restart your system at any time during the process? If not, that's probably worth a try. Gnome may be caching the network session.
If it is working now, there may have been an expiry.

Abhishek_Harlalka · 2012-05-30 09:08:20

What do u mean by expiry? and why only gnome evolution is working and not online-accounts, gwibber, and pidgin

skanky · 2012-05-30 09:32:00

Well I'm just guessing and trying to give ideas as to what to look at, but on thinking about it, I think I'm talking nonsense so ignore what I wrote above.
Sorry.

jakobcreutzfeldt · 2012-05-30 09:38:52

Does your college use a proxy? Not all applications (like Gwibber, last time I checked, which was admittedly a while ago) play nicely with proxies, despite your settings.

Abhishek_Harlalka · 2012-05-30 10:15:57

My college provides DHCP connection to us but i am using static (manually assigning IP) to get better speed.

Abhishek_Harlalka · 2012-05-30 11:13:54

I think i have found the problem. I logged into gnome using root and it started working. So, how can i do it without logging as root.

Inxsible · 2012-05-30 14:50:28

please use the EDIT functionality instead of posting consecutively

Abhishek_Harlalka · 2012-05-30 15:46:37

So, now i know the problem, any suggestion on how to solve it?

ewaller · 2012-05-30 17:22:56

Abhishek_Harlalka wrote:

My college provides DHCP connection to us but i am using static (manually assigning IP) to get better speed.

Don't do that. It creates havoc on the network. If it were my network, I would block your MAC.

Why do you think you "get better speed" with a static address?

Last edited by ewaller (2012-05-30 17:23:12)

Abhishek_Harlalka · 2012-05-30 17:33:46

they give very slow speed in our hostels so i have assigned an IP address of one our lab systems. Obviously, i always check if the IP it is free or not. Can anyone give me the suggestion for my problem.

ewaller · 2012-05-30 17:46:53

Since you are setting a static address without going through DHCP, I am sure you set your gateway and domain name servers up correctly by hand also. (Warning, there may be some sarcasm in that statement. YMMV)

Abhishek_Harlalka · 2012-05-30 17:48:46

that is true. but the problem is gnome applications can access internet only when i log in as root in gui

Abhishek_Harlalka · 2012-06-02 07:47:02

I'm waiting for suggestions

alex_anthony · 2012-06-03 16:30:31

Create a new user and log in as them? To check it isn't just your normal user that's broken.

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