[Bug 62459] New: Telepathy thinks you are offline if you connect to internet via other methods than Networkmanager, eg wvdial

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62459

          Priority: medium
            Bug ID: 62459
          Assignee: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
           Summary: Telepathy thinks you are offline if you connect to
                    internet via other methods than Networkmanager, eg
                    wvdial
        QA Contact: telepathy-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Severity: major
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Linux (All)
          Reporter: orion2000za at yahoo.co.uk
          Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
            Status: NEW
           Version: git master
         Component: mission-control
           Product: Telepathy

connect to internet using command line wvdial and a USB (or other) modem. Other
applications note that you are online, kde-telepathy thinks you are offline as
you are not using Networkmanager

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. connect to internet using command wvdial from console
2. set status to "available"
Actual Results:  
other applications as KMail, Firefox etc works and notice you are online
Kde-telepathy thinks you are offline and will not connect, ktp-debugger
confirms this

Expected Results:  
kde-telepathy. like other internet applications, notice that you are connected
via other means than Networkmanager and connects to your accounts

Networkmanager can deal with most devices/connections but far from all. I have
2-3 USB 3G modems that are not working via Networkmanager but works perfect
using wvdial command.
Other applications, be they KDE native as Rekonq and KMail or not as Firefox,
note that I am connected. It is only kde-telepathy that does not.

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