Problem with Kontact when bypassing knetworkmanager

[Nathan Flowers]

Binary package hint: kdepim

As far as I understand Kontact has an off line mode like Firefox. I use a script to connect to my secured wireless network </can't figure out wpa gui and it breaks every thing :- ( not what I'm here for> using the script makes knetworkmanager think that I'm not connected to any wireless networks. when I use Firefox I always have to switch from off line mode to online mode. My investigation in to the mater shows that I can use Kontact on my home wireless (using knetworkmanager to connect) and send and receive email just fine. It's only when I use my script to connect to my secured wireless network that the problem occurs, scene I'm bypassing knetworkmanager, some of my applications think that I'm not actually online. Is their a setting that I can set in Kontact so it will act as tho I'm online and try to communicate any way.. Like Firefox has an offline mode you can set to online?

[Marcus Asshauer (mcas)]

Thank you for reporting this bug. Please add your kubuntu version and the output of apt-cache policy kdepim.

[Nathan Flowers (nathan-flowers)]

I have a problem when I bypass knetworkmanager using a script to call WPA_supplicant and dhclient so I can connect to a secured network that knetwork doesn't support the settings for, my system will think it's off line. well any programs </applications> that depend on knetworkmananger's little flag that states that I'm online, don't think I'm online because knetworkmanager doen't think I'm online. Their should be some way of ketworkmanager detecting incoming connections and determine if the connection is live then report the system as bing online. At least this way, any programs depend on knetworkmanagers online connection flag will see that knetworkmanager is online and function normally.

[Nathan Flowers (nathan-flowers)]

Hardy 64. 2.6.24-20,
 ~$ apt-cache policy kdepim
kdepim:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 4:3.5.9-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
     4:3.5.9-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages

[Nathan Flowers (nathan-flowers)]

Thank you for your assistance.

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

Thank you for filing this bug. A lot has changed with network management and the advent of KDE4 since you reported this, and I haven't seen any bugs with applications thinking they are offline because of KNM in a long time, so could you check if this still effects you in Kubuntu 10.04?

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as requested in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the "Status" column, and change the status back to "New". Thanks again!

[Nathan Flowers (nathan-flowers)]

I'm sorry that's it's taking a long time to complete this, I'm having
difficulties replicating the exact conditions that were in place when
this was taking place.

The network was a 802.11X using wep, mschapv2. The place that was
originally using this has changed to wpa. I'll attempt some testing.
but It's going to take some time.

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Harald Sitter <email address hidden> wrote:
> We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need
> to investigate the problem, as requested in the previous comments.
> Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't
> hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report
> you can click on the current status, under the "Status" column, and
> change the status back to "New". Thanks again!
>
> ** Changed in: kdepim (Ubuntu)
>       Status: Incomplete => Invalid
>
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