I've recently installed Ubuntu 9.04. I've set up my internet connection via wvdial (Ubuntu does not recognize my mobile broadband provider), which works but it seems pidgin does not know that I'm connected to the internet. Whenever I try to use pidgin, I get a 'waiting for network connection' message and it just never gets around to connecting. What should I do to fix this?
Edit: It might be problem with my ubuntu installation/internet setup. While Firefox and Synaptic works, both Pidgin and Empathy cannot connect to the internet. It is as if the IM clients don't know that an internet connection is available. Empathy does not even allow setting the status to anything but 'offline'.
Starting empathy from the terminal prints the following output:
** (empathy:3522): DEBUG: mission_control_get_presence_actual: MC not running.
** (empathy:3522): DEBUG: mission_control_get_presence_message_actual: MC not running.
** (empathy:3522): DEBUG: mission_control_get_presence_actual: MC not running.
** (empathy:3522): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running.
** (empathy:3522): DEBUG: mission_control_get_presence_actual: MC not running.
** (empathy:3522): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running.
** (empathy:3522): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running.
** (empathy:3522): DEBUG: mission_control_get_presence_actual: MC not running.
** (empathy:3522): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running.
** (empathy:3522): DEBUG: mission_control_get_presence_actual: MC not running.
** (empathy:3522): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running.
** (empathy:3522): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running.
** (empathy:3522): DEBUG: mission_control_get_presence_actual: MC not running.
** (empathy:3522): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running.
** (empathy:3522): DEBUG: mission_control_get_presence_actual: MC not running.
** (empathy:3522): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running.
** (empathy:3522): DEBUG: mission_control_get_connection_status: MC not running.
** (empathy:3522): DEBUG: mission_control_get_online_connections: MC not running.
** (empathy:3522): DEBUG: mission_control_get_tpconnection: MC not running.
** (empathy:3522): DEBUG: mission_control_get_tpconnection: MC not running.
I am beginning to suspect this might be due to connecting via wget.