Please describe the problem:
Using latest banshee on Ubuntu intrepid from the launchpad Banshee Team PPA, for some reason banshee thinks that I have no internet connection when using the last.fm extension. I had the same problem initially with the lyrics extension just telling me there was no network, but that seems to have started working now :S

I'm not using a proxy or anything like that and last.fm website seems to be working fine. The problem seems to have started since the very last update to 1.4.2-1~intrepid2 from the PPA, although it could just as easily be that I am now using a different "network manager" (rtutil instead of nm-applet in order to use serialmonkey rt61 driver).

Steps to reproduce:
Click on "Neighbors" under "Last.fm" in the side pane, all I see is an error notice at the bottom of the window saying "No network connection detected."

Actual results:


Expected results:


Does this happen every time?
Yes

Other information:
Restarting banshee or disabling then re-enabling the last.fm plugin does not seem to make any difference. Nor does fiddling with the "Disable features requiring internet access" option in the preferences. It's like it just decided there's no network (which there is) and won't bother actually trying.

How exactly is banshee "looking" for the network? I have a suspicion that this has something to do with me not using the normal gnome network manager since I remember last time I was using rtutil, I had problems trying to stop firefox starting up in offline mode, but I have no way to test this right now because serialmonkey drivers with rtutil are still the only way I can get my wireless to work on this particular machine.