Pidgin and Empathy not signing into msn

Mandred · #1 18th January 2010, 10:17 PM

Recently jumped from Ubuntu to Fedora 12 over the weekend, has been quite the bumpy ride. Though fun of course. But I'm having trouble coming to a solution for this problem, that started today. When signing into both Empathy or Pidgin (only with msn account) they both just hang on the white screen inactive... I say "inactive" the program hasn't frozen I just cannot be signed in.
Also, in Pidgin at the bottom, next to where it shows your status, it has;

"Available - Waiting for network connection"

Thanks for any help.

Jamwa · #2 19th January 2010, 10:11 AM

Use kopete. Pidgin has always had issues for me and requires tweaking all the time

mouse_runner · #3 19th January 2010, 05:29 PM

did you change something to the account?
pidgin should work, i am absolutely sure

Mandred · #4 19th January 2010, 06:51 PM

Solved.
Finally worked through to a fix. It seems that it was the connection between NetworkManager-Applet and both Empathy and Pidgin. As I use Wicd for wireless connection, I have the NM-Applet turn off which causes both Empathy and Pidgin to assume there is no internet connection.

So was just a matter of;

Code:

$ su -
$ yum erase NetworkManager