knetworkmanager and plasmoid

Patrick Boutilier boutilpj at ednet.ns.ca
Tue Sep 14 20:23:26 UTC 2010


On 09/14/2010 05:20 PM, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 September 2010 19:52:58 Rex Dieter wrote:
>> 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
>>
> I have installed
>
> knetworkmanager-openvpn-0.9-0.22.20100830.fc13.kde45.x86_64
> knetworkmanager-vpnc-0.9-0.22.20100830.fc13.kde45.x86_64


I can create a pre-shared key openvpn config but run into this bug when 
I try to activate it.



  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605708




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