Re: [Evolution] send / receive grayed out

[Johan Scheepers <johansche telkomsa net>]

On 04/11/2010 21:02, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 22:43 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote:
>    
> > On 04/11/2010 20:16, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >      
> > > On 11/4/10 3:38 PM, Johan Scheepers wrote:
> > >        
> > > > On 04/11/2010 19:00, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > >          
> > > > > On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 20:05 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote:
> > > > >            
> > > > > > Good day,
> > > > > > Evolution 2.30.3
> > > > > > Debian squeeze freeze fully updated.
> > > > > > After installing squeeze i tried to use evolution but the **  send /
> > > > > > receive  ** stays grayed out.
> > > > > > The rest seems fine.
> > > > > >              
> > > > > You are offline.
> > > > >            
> > > > Not offline - Icedove is working fine on another mail address
> > > >          
> > > Doesn't matter. Did you read the URL Pete sent:
> > > http://live.gnome.org/Evolution/FAQ#Why_is_Evolution_offline_when_my_net_connection_is_working.3F
> > >
> > >
> > > Summary: you may have NetworkManager misconfigured.
> > >
> > > poc
> > >        
> > This is a standalone laptop connected to dsl modem by cable.
> > Funny.. Been using evo on suse,  ubuntu, pclinux with no problem.
> > So I am stucked.
> >      
> Just because it works properly with other distros doesn't mean that
> Debian hasn't mucked something up.
>
> Bottom line is this: Evo gets its connection status from NetworkManager,
> if NM is not configured properly Evo thinks that there is no network
> connection and so goes off-line.  Most distros manage configure NM
> properly, Debian obviously doesn't.
>
> Like Patrick I use Fedora, so I can't help you with Debian, sorry.
> However, it doesn't take an awful lot of effort to search on Google -
> e.g. search for "debian network manager config" and it comes up with a
> Debian wiki page as the first offering:
>
>    http://wiki.debian.org/NetworkManager
>
> and in there there is a whole section on "NetworkManager in Squeeze" - I
> think you'll probably find that it will help you.  There's even a bug
> reference for it:
>
>    http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=530024
>
> As others said - not an Evo issue.
>
> P.
>    

Thanks for your input. I am waiting for a reply on debian and wil look 
at the wiki