>The bug is in firefox and evolution. Thunderbird starts off online.
this only means that thunderbird does not read online status from nm.
the problem is that nm does not recognize network connections that it does not
manage, and pretends to be offline even if there is a perfectly working
interne
I confirm this bug. depending on where I connect fromI use both network manager
(for ethernet and wireless), and a custom udev script that brings up pppoatm
automatically when the ADSL USB modem is connected (aetra modem, ueagle-atm
driver - see http://atm.eagle-usb.org/wakka.php?wiki=UEagleAtmU
