Bug 316841

Summary:	Telepathy thinks you are offline if you connect to internet via other methods than Networkmanager, eg wvdial
Product:	[Unmaintained] telepathy	Reporter:	Orion <orion2000za>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Telepathy Bugs <kde-telepathy-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	major	CC:	kde, mklapetek
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	git-latest
Target Milestone:	Future
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Orion 2013-03-16 12:26:22 UTC

connect to internet using command line wvdial and a USB (or other) modem. Other applications note that you are online, kde-telepathy thinks you are offline as you are not using Networkmanager

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. connect to internet using command wvdial from console
2. set status to "available"
Actual Results:  
other applications as KMail, Firefox etc works and notice you are online
Kde-telepathy thinks you are offline and will not connect, ktp-debugger confirms this

Expected Results:  
kde-telepathy. like other internet applications, notice that you are connected via other means than Networkmanager and connects to your accounts

Networkmanager can deal with most devices/connections but far from all. I have 2-3 USB 3G modems that are not working via Networkmanager but works perfect using wvdial command.
Other applications, be they KDE native as Rekonq and KMail or not as Firefox, note that I am connected. It is only kde-telepathy that does not.

Comment 1 Martin Klapetek 2013-03-16 12:40:00 UTC

Thanks for the report. 

The component responsible for connecting to IM networks is Mission Control and is from the upstream Telepathy project. Any such functionality should be implemented there as we cannot force MC to bypass network manager checks (I think). 

That said, this bug should be filed at bugs.freedesktop.org, project Telepathy and component Mission Control.

Not much we can do, sorry...

Comment 2 David Edmundson 2013-03-16 15:18:34 UTC

It seems there is a way to disable the MC connection plugins.

dconf write /org/gnome/empathy/use-conn  false
(this disables the plugins that check connection state)

then run:
killall mission-control-5 
(this will make it reload the config, it will automatically respawn)

Will x-post to the forums.

Comment 3 David Edmundson 2013-03-18 04:04:44 UTC

*** Bug 316943 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Orion 2013-03-18 04:53:45 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> It seems there is a way to disable the MC connection plugins.
> 
> dconf write /org/gnome/empathy/use-conn  false
> (this disables the plugins that check connection state)
> 
> then run:
> killall mission-control-5 
> (this will make it reload the config, it will automatically respawn)
> 
> Will x-post to the forums.
this does not fix the problem for me