[Bug 86680] Re: knetworkmanager stops kde applications from accessing the network

[David McNeill]

I've also just discovered this bug.  Clean install of Hardy 8.04 on a
brand new Compaq notebook (wiping Wista off).

It was a new user's first introduction to open source. Email for his
small business for weeks had been at cafe's & friends places.  He lives
miles out in the country, so dial up is all he can get. He's real keen
to be up and running, but is not a power user.  I chose KMail because
Thunderbird is a 12Mb download, and over dialup that's all night or
more. I thought kmail would be all nicely integrated, so I'd get less
problems. Not!!!

So I spend 1/2 an hour on dialup stooging around till I find this and
related threads. I read the above and know for sure it's the same issue.
I can also see there's been little concrete progress on solving it.
Quite likely because no one who can solve this one uses PPP all the
time, and not many who use PPP have the skills to solve it.

To wrap up, it is still current, it does have a lot of real world
consequences. I'd like to help but not sure how, since it obviously
involves KDE internals and a bit of wizardry. So for now all I can do is
add this user's story.

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knetworkmanager stops kde applications from accessing the network
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/86680
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