network-manager should not set offline mode when it manages no device

[Erik]

Binary package hint: gaim

Apple PowerBook G4 (5,4)
Ubuntu 7.04 (PPC) up to date as of 07/02/07
Broadcom 4306 with bcm43xx wireless driver
gaim 1:2.0.0-beta6-1ubuntu1

Gaim continually says "Waiting for network connection" and never actually connects. This is probably because network-manager is broken and doesn't detect any network, but gaim should not be dependent on this.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. Do you have any device managed by network-manager? That looks like a duplicate from bug #82335

[Erik (echakr)]

Yes, an apt-get upgrade installed network-manager some time ago, but this package does not seem to do anything except cause other desktop components to stop functioning.

Perhaps network-manager should be removed from the distribution if it cannot be made to work and only serves to break the rest of the desktop.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

You are not forced to use an unstable distribution, bugs happen and are fixed, we don't remove package every time somebody finds a bug or we would not have many softwares that can be used. Comments like that one are not useful, marking the duplicate duplicate

[Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow)]

Changed description to reflect duplicate - otherwise this bug was turning up in searches for gaim bugs.