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muddy
3rd September 2011, 11:52 PM
Hello, I installed Fedora 15 today and after a few very long hours finally got the broadcom driver to work and my laptop is now connected to my router. Yay! But now when I try going to a website in firefox it says server not found. I can ping anything inside my network but when I try to ping outside the network, for example google, it says ping: unknown host google.com.
So I thought it might be a DNS problem but the network settings point to the router for DNS so I'm not sure what else could be wrong. All of the other settings look correct. Any ideas?

stoat
4th September 2011, 12:37 AM
Try pinging an IP address (74.125.113.104 for Google). Or try that in Firefox's nav text box. If that works, then try entering some DNS nameserver IP addresses in NetworkManager (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1490240#post1490240).

Firefox also may need you to toggle network.dns.disableIPv6 to true (enter about:config in the URL nav text box, agree, scroll down, right-click the property, toggle it).

muddy
4th September 2011, 04:02 PM

Wow that actually seems to have worked. Thank you very much! As much as I like linux getting the net to work is a real pain sometimes.