So I finally found out the source of problem why my pidgin cannot connect to any accounts. It’s because I used gnome-ppp to connect to the internet through my usb 3G modem. Apparently, internet-connecting application like firefox and pidgin check the availability of network connection through Network Manager. And the problem is, if user use other application (like gnome-ppp or wvdial) to set up the connection, Network Manager doesn’t realize this. So d**n stupid!
That’s why I used to get this problem of firefox starting in offline mode. Luckily it can easily fixed in firefox.
But now the problem is with pidgin. How to configure pidgin so that it won’t check the connection through network manager? Anybody knows? I’ve been googling around still cannot find the answer
There are some solutions for this, not a good one though:
- Uninstall network manager. Hmmm, not a good solution for me, cause network manager works fine with cable and wireless network.
- Disable then reenable the account in Pidgin every time you want to go online. Doing it now, but soooooooooooooooooooooooo annnnnnnooooooyyyyyingggggg
Funny thing is, it didn’t happen before with Ibex. I can just connect to the internet using gnome-ppp and pidgin was also working just fine. So why it became like this???? I really like Ubuntu, really! But Ubuntu’s been like this for so long. Every release came with new little feature but lots of new problems or even old problems that had been fixed but ocured again. Come ooooon, it’s about time for Ubuntu to grow up and mature already!!
Now i wonder, whose bug is this? The applications for being so stupid to depend on network manager too much or the network manager for being so arrogant in monopolizing the network connection in ubuntu while being stupid for being unable to setup the connection for 3G modem?
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