knetworkmanager and plasmoid

[Rex Dieter]

On 09/14/2010 12:39 PM, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 September 2010 10:35:54 Michael J Gruber wrote:
>> Eli Wapniarski venit, vidit, dixit 14.09.2010 08:04:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I'm having a problem with knetworkmanager... the regular applet and the
>>> plasmoid.
>>>
>>> I cannot seem to find a way to connect to vpn using the applet and
>>> currently am forced to log out of kde and go to gnome when I need to
>>> access the vpn connection.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know if I need to configure something? Is there a previous
>>> bug report?
>>
>> I can only say the plasmoid works perfectly with KDE 4.5.1 from
>> kde-testing, and that includes WPA2 Enterprise with certificates as well
>> as VPN via vpnc (no hybrid auth, no unpatched networkmananger does
>> hybrid right now).
>>
>> In fact, I find the 4.5.1 plasmoid the best experience so far compared
>> to nm-applet and knetworkmannager.
>>
>> In any case, that issue is fixed already and only needs to come to
>> regular fedora updates.
>>
>> Michael
> 
> I'm using
> 
> kde-plasma-networkmanagement-0.9-0.22.20100830.fc13.kde45.x86_64
> kdenetwork-4.5.1-0.1.fc13.x86_64
> 
> I do not see anyway to connect to vpn using either nm-applet or the plasmoid

You may need to install one of
knetworkmanager-openvpn
knetworkmanager-vpnc