knetworkmanager and plasmoid

Eli Wapniarski eli at orbsky.homelinux.org
Tue Sep 14 20:34:00 UTC 2010


On Tuesday 14 September 2010 22:23:26 Patrick Boutilier wrote:
> 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
> 

I just am unable to find a menu item that says connect to vpn

Eli

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