On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 22:26 +0200, Florian Pressler wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm trying the gnome network manager for the first time these days, > and so far I can say that things work quite easily and without much > config-hassling. > > There is just one issue at the moment I have with the gnome network > manager. I need wireless with WPA (this works), I need dial-up for my > UMTS/GMS PCMCIA-Datacard (this works, too), and I need VPN-client > functionality (works like a charm with vpnc in connection with the > plugin for the network manager). > > The problem is using dial-up and VPN *together*. It's just not > possible - the network manager is not offering me connecting via VPN > if I'm in the Internet via the Datacard. It works, if I'm wired or > wirelessly (802.11b/g) connected. This is a know issue. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354068 Should be fixed with NM v0.7 > > I think the real problem is that the tool is not aware of the actual > status of the dial-up connection and because of this the tool can't > show it to the user. This also has a big consequence/drawback - as the > tool doesn't know about the status of the connection, the icon above > is shown as "not connected" --> and then you also can't start a > VPN-connection! > > This is really a broken design of the tool. A common use-case is the > following: I'm travelling with my laptop and have a UMTS/GSM > PCMCIA-Datacard with me. I connect to the Internet (with the dial Up > functionality of network-manager) and then want to start VPN to > establish a secure tunnel to my company. I can't do that, because > network-manager doesn't let me start VPN (it's greyed out), because it > doesn't know about the dial-up status and thinks it's not connected. > If I were at a wireless-hotspot, network-manager does check the status > and offers me to connect via VPN (works perfectly, by the way). > > Perhaps I'll find a workaround by using some scripts to manually start > the VPN-connection, but I would rather like to see this fixed. If i > can help/test/do anything (except programming, which I can't), I'll > gladly do it. You could use vpnc from commandline as a workaround. > > Best Regards, > airflow > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > NetworkManager-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list -- Ritesh Khadgaray ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ LinuX N Stuff Ph: +919970164885 Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway.
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