Comment 17 for bug 82335

We have similar report from KDE users as well: bug 86680. Kubuntu started to use n-m network status recently for KMail and several users complain that due to static connections, n-m claims network as offline (as it does not see the interface at all).

For test, I have changed debian/patches/05-debian_backend.patch and commented out blacklisting of devices with static code:
+ /* If the interface has no options other than just "inet dhcp"
+ * it's probably ok to fiddle with it.
+ */
+ for (curr_d = curr_device->info; curr_d; curr_d = curr_d->next) {
+ if (strcmp (curr_d->key, "inet")
+ || strcmp (curr_d->data, "dhcp" ))
+ blacklist = TRUE;
+ }

It looks it help for this particular bug, but further testing is required for potential side-effects of this change. I think we need to discuss this with Debian authors, as this patch is from Debian.