which network manager are you using, can you try disabling the option 'use_conn' in empathy's settings in gconf-editor, that way empathy won't wait for the network manager to connect. Please let us know if that helps.
which network manager are you using, can you try disabling the option 'use_conn' in empathy's settings in gconf-editor, that way empathy won't wait for the network manager to connect. Please let us know if that helps.