@Adam, I followed your advice and it works. But it is still annoying. I have to manually set status to available for gaim to be able to connect. What is more annoying is that I have disabled network-manager in my session properties and still the problem exists.
-- network-manager should not set offline mode when it manages no device https://launchpad.net/bugs/82335 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs