Re: [Evolution] send / receive grayed out

[Philippe LeCavalier <support plecavalier com>]

On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 23:18 +0200, Johan Scheepers wrote:
> 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.
Not the case. I'm on Deb Squeeze w/NM and everything is 100%
> >
> > 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:
It's out-of-the-box. Don't even need Google. 'apt-get install network-manager nm-applet' and run nm-applet thereafter.
Phil
> >
> >    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
>
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