Comment 2 for bug 789305

on 11.10 i have same issue, only my google chat messages are permanently lost:

My laptop is connected on both wired and wireless connections:
1. Disconnect wired connection, wireless connection is working, empathy does not reconnect and all my send messages are lost, not received even after manual disconnect/reconnect.
2. Connect back wired connection - empathy reconnects after 1 minute and messaging is working normally.

It seeems that one case is handled (connect of wired connection), while another case is not (disconnect of wired connection).

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10

$ apt-cache policy empathy
empathy:
  Installed: 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.2.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://mirror.soften.ktu.lt/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

What I expect to happen:
On wired connection disconnect, empathy should try to reconnect to wireless connection
What happens instead:
Empathy stays "connected", but actually no google chat messages are being sent