On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Ross Drummond <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, chris wrote: >> >> Which is my issue. I am on dial up, and I cannot get Evolution to go on >> line at all. As you say areal PITA. > > Maybe this will help; > > https://live.gnome.org/Evolution/FAQ#Why_is_Evolution_offline_when_my_net_connection_is_working.3F
It would help, except for the fact that Evolution/GNOME(?) have simply ignored the whole use-case of "I do not want Network Manager to manage my network, but I have not uninstalled it." NM is a user-based tool, which is very good if you have to use personal credentials to access the network (i.e. corporate wifi mainly, or most VPNs). However if you want the machine to be accessible on the network when no user is currently logged on, you're completely sunk and have to fall back on to other solutions ... like (debian)/etc/network/interfaces and so on. Their FAQ ends up with "The solution is to configure NM to manage your network interface". Useless. All they needed was an option to say "Force online." -jim _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
