In version 1.0, connections did not appear on the available connections list, but could only be selected by direct commands to icd (with dbus, for example). This is fixed in version 1.2, which is already in extras-devel and my repository. If you already upgraded to this version, did you reboot (or at least killall icd2) since the upgrade?

I am not sure about autoconnect, though, since a dummy type connection is always available.