Re: [Evolution] evolution always starts offline

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 23:06 +0100, Felix Koop wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 08.11.2009, 16:54 -0430 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan:
> > On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 20:39 +0100, Bernhard Kleine wrote:
> > > we had a similar thread some days ago. At the origin of the problem is
> > > network manager who does not touch static IP adresses. As a
> > > consequence Evo sees that there is no actual network controlled by
> > > Network Manager and thus assumes that there isnot any network at all.
> > > This behaviour might change with updates to come. So far the removal
> > > of Network Manager seems the best way to have Evo start online
> >
> > Just configure Network Manager to manage the interface. All cases I've
> > seen of this problem are due to NM not managing the interface and
> > therefore reporting it as down even when it's up. AFAIK it has nothing
> > to do with static IP addresses as such.
> >
> > poc
>
> The NM icon reports the network connection as up and it shows all
> attributes, IP adress, device type, mac adress correctly. How can I
> test, if NM really thinks that the connection is up? And how can I check
> if it is managing (or at least trying to manage) the interface? I have
> all necessary information in /etc/network/interfaces.

I use Fedora, where system-config-network allows me to check this. I've
no idea how it's done on Debian and I have no /etc/network/interfaces
file. Maybe you should ask on a Debian list since this isn't
Evo-specific.

poc