I found a workaround from the KDE bug tracking system: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130472
After establishing the connection, I manually run this command from konsole: $ dcop kded networkstatus setNetworkStatus NMNetwork 1 And after that, KDE applications are able to connect! BTW, I use knetworkmanager 1:0.2~r686534-0ubuntu1 on Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy). Can someone else confirm if this works for other versions? -- knetworkmanager stops kde applications from accessing the network https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/86680 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs