On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 23:18 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote:
> On 04/11/2010 21:02, Pete Biggs wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 22:43 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: > > > >> On 04/11/2010 20:16, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > >> > >>> On 11/4/10 3:38 PM, Johan Scheepers wrote: > >>> > >>>> On 04/11/2010 19:00, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 20:05 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>>> Good day, > >>>>>> Evolution 2.30.3 > >>>>>> Debian squeeze freeze fully updated. > >>>>>> After installing squeeze i tried to use evolution but the ** send / > >>>>>> receive ** stays grayed out. > >>>>>> The rest seems fine. > >>>>>> > >>>>> You are offline. > >>>>> > >>>> Not offline - Icedove is working fine on another mail address > >>>> > >>> Doesn't matter. Did you read the URL Pete sent: > >>> http://live.gnome.org/Evolution/FAQ#Why_is_Evolution_offline_when_my_net_connection_is_working.3F > >>> > >>> > >>> Summary: you may have NetworkManager misconfigured. > >>> > >>> poc > >>> > >> This is a standalone laptop connected to dsl modem by cable. > >> Funny.. Been using evo on suse, ubuntu, pclinux with no problem. > >> So I am stucked. > >> > > Just because it works properly with other distros doesn't mean that > > Debian hasn't mucked something up. > > > > Bottom line is this: Evo gets its connection status from NetworkManager, > > if NM is not configured properly Evo thinks that there is no network > > connection and so goes off-line. Most distros manage configure NM > > properly, Debian obviously doesn't. Not the case. I'm on Deb Squeeze w/NM and everything is 100% > > > > Like Patrick I use Fedora, so I can't help you with Debian, sorry. > > However, it doesn't take an awful lot of effort to search on Google - > > e.g. search for "debian network manager config" and it comes up with a > > Debian wiki page as the first offering: It's out-of-the-box. Don't even need Google. 'apt-get install network-manager nm-applet' and run nm-applet thereafter. Phil > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager > > > > and in there there is a whole section on "NetworkManager in Squeeze" - I > > think you'll probably find that it will help you. There's even a bug > > reference for it: > > > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=530024 > > > > As others said - not an Evo issue. > > > > P. > > > > Thanks for your input. I am waiting for a reply on debian and wil look > at the wiki > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-list mailing list > evolution-list@gnome.org > To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
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