Comment 29 for bug 911706

"End users shouldn't be requiered to do all of that just to get working two default Ubuntu programs." That's true, but they aren't: end users aren't installing then disabling Network Manager to begin with. If you're going to alter your system in that way, it's your responsibility to do it properly, so that NM isn't running for USC to ask it about connection status. (I trust that you've also checked that a bug is reported for whatever is missing from Network Manager that makes you use wvdial instead.)