VPN connection using GUI (KDE / NetworkManager)

Gary Stainburn gary.stainburn at ringways.co.uk
Wed Nov 9 12:05:53 UTC 2011


Hi folks.

I want to configure a VPN for my laptop, but rather than the way I normally do 
things using command line / scripts I thought I would use NetworkManager.

I've googled and found that I needed to add NetworkManager-pptp which I did 
(aling with a few others, see below).  However, when I open up the KDE 
control module for Network Manager and go to the VPN tab, the 'Add' button is 
disabled.

Can anyone tell me what I need to do to enable it?

Ta

Gary

[root at dcomp5 ~]# rpm -qa|grep -i networkman
NetworkManager-glib-0.8.4-1.fc14.i686
NetworkManager-pptp-0.8.1-1.fc14.i686
NetworkManager-vpnc-0.8.1-1.fc14.i686
NetworkManager-0.8.4-1.fc14.i686
NetworkManager-openswan-0.8.0-5.20100411git.fc14.i686
kde-plasma-networkmanagement-libs-0.9-0.40.20110323.fc14.i686
NetworkManager-openvpn-0.8.1-1.fc14.i686
kde-plasma-networkmanagement-0.9-0.40.20110323.fc14.i686
[root at dcomp5 ~]# 

-- 
Gary Stainburn
Group I.T. Manager
Ringways Garages
http://www.ringways.co.uk 



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