*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 82335 *** I just had great confusion about this issue.
I upgraded to Feisty from Edgy. Gaim was apparently not working. Nothing I did in the options in Gaim instant messenger would make it go online, or even show my list of buddies. It apparently depends on networkmanager working, although it doesn't actually *say* that. So, I tried to get network manager working. It just said "network is not enabled", which is obviously untrue, as I could see that my network was enabled. Eventually, after googling some forum thread, I found out I have to remove the configuration from /etc/network/interfaces, and then network manager will "magically" start working, and gaim will also magically start working. This is so unobvious, it hurts! One fix would, as suggested in this bug report, be to make network manager report working network interfaces, even if it isn't actually managing them. However, for me, a simple fix would have been for the network manager applet to say "managed networking not enabled, remove custom config from /etc/network/interfaces to enable network manager". -- network-manager does not take into account static configurations *properly* https://launchpad.net/bugs/87941 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
