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