Re: downgrade to 0.6.6 temporally?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 14:42 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 09:13:50PM -0500, Trey Nolen wrote:
> >>
> >> unfortunatly Im still unable to connect to our Windows 2003 VPN Server
> >> on my Intrepid machine. It worked on hardy and the bug is already filed
> >> at lp:
> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-pptp/+bug/259168
> >>
> >> I wonder if I can downgrade only the network-manager to 0.6.6 untill
> >> this bug is fixed. I just tried to build it from source but got an error
> >> because my package wireless-tools isn't the right one that was expected
> >> for that network-manager version. How could I work around it...I don't
> >> won't to destabilise my system but I want to get my VPN to work :-)
> >>
> >
> > Well, I'm not running Intrepid yet, but I did upgrade to NM .7 on Hardy 
> > and had problems with it.  I successfully downgraded to .6.6 and fixed my 
> > issues (most of them anyway).   It is kind of a pain to downgrade, but it 
> > can be done.  I did have one problem after downgrading though - I was 
> > unable to create *new* VPNs.  I already had some created before upgrading 
> > to .7 and those work OK, but I could not get new ones configured after 
> > the switch.
> 
> downgrading in intrepid isnt really supported. We should figure out
> why it doesnt work for you. Have you looked in the "advanced ..."
> settings available for your pptp connection in nm-connection-editor?

Yeah, if we're not converting the old 0.6.6 options correctly we should
fix that, or if we're not sending the right options we should fix that
too.  Basically, lets figure out what the problem actually is so we can
make it better for everyone and move this forward.

Dan