Comment 8 for bug 592564

This is more likely a bug in network-manager since E169 (actually E620) works instantly using wvdial. The only problem with using wvdial to establish a connection is that many desktop applications check network-manager's D-Bus values (such as http://projects.gnome.org/NetworkManager/developers/spec-08.html#org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.Connection.Active, NM_ACTIVE_CONNECTION_STATE_ACTIVATED = 2). If the connection hasn't been established by network-manager, applications such as Firefox and Dropbox will stay in offline mode. With Firefox this can circumvented by altering about:config values but still... Too many applications depend on network-manager's values and there's no easy way to tell to the system that connection has been established without using network-manager.