[SOLVED] Has anyone had problems with connecting to the internet on Fedora?

[David5]

Started a few days ago for me on my Framework laptop 11th gen. It works on my Windows partition but not Fedora. It shows me connected to my Wifi but Chrome says “ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED” and Firefox says it can’t connect to server. Any suggestions to fix it?

Thanks!

[amoun]

Hi I’m sure I saw something but couldn’t find it, there is a somewhat related issue that may provide some idea of what can be tried/tested

[SOLVED] Slow wifi speeds on 11th-gen framework on Fedora36

[Framework 11th Gen, Fedora 36, NetworkManager/nmtui] I’ve noticed my framework has slow wifi speeds compared to other linux devices on my network. See the iperf3 results below. I’ve looked through a few threads, and messing around with the config for NetworkManager (e.g. with powersave) hasn’t produced any meaningful results. $ cat /etc/os-release NAME="Fedora Linux" VERSION="36 (Workstation Edition)" ID=fedora VERSION_ID=36 VERSION_CODENAME="" PLATFORM_ID="platform:f36" PRETTY_NAME="Fedor…

[Matt_Hartley]

@David5

Started a few days ago for me on my Framework laptop 11th gen. It works on my Windows partition but not Fedora. It shows me connected to my Wifi but Chrome says “ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED” and Firefox says it can’t connect to server. Any suggestions to fix it?

Is this is Fedora 37 or Fedora 38?
What was the last change made to the installation? Updates?

Are you connected to a VPN and can you ping your router?

[David5]

Thanks for the reply. Turns out the (poorly designed) ProtonVPN sometimes has problems closing and allowing connections, even when you are not connected to the VPN and persists even after force closing with System Monitor. After ensuring it had been closed completely, my connection resumed. They are supposedly rewriting the application so I hope bugs like these disappear.

Thanks for the willingness to troubleshoot this issue.

[Matt_Hartley]

@David5

Thanks for the reply. Turns out the (poorly designed) ProtonVPN sometimes has problems closing and allowing connections, even when you are not connected to the VPN and persists even after force closing with System Monitor. After ensuring it had been closed completely, my connection resumed. They are supposedly rewriting the application so I hope bugs like these disappear.

From one perspective, the VPN is doing it’s job - connection stops being secure for some reason, kills the connection with fire. Unfortunately, it may be doing this when it’s not desired.

ExpressVPN is, kinda better in this space. Sorta, but that’s based on light usage. They do update their application often though.

Marking solved as we know the cause of the issue.