Re: [Evolution] evolution always starts offline

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

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On Sun, 2009-11-08 at 20:39 +0100, Bernhard Kleine wrote:
> we had a similar thread some days ago. At the origin of the problem is
> network manager who does not touch static IP adresses. As a
> consequence Evo sees that there is no actual network controlled by
> Network Manager and thus assumes that there isnot any network at all.
> This behaviour might change with updates to come. So far the removal
> of Network Manager seems the best way to have Evo start online

Just configure Network Manager to manage the interface. All cases I've
seen of this problem are due to NM not managing the interface and
therefore reporting it as down even when it's up. AFAIK it has nothing
to do with static IP addresses as such.

poc