On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 11:57 +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote: > 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
so, how do you do that? please? Chris _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
