Re: Make Network Manager applet aware of ppp connections

[Diosney Sarmiento <diosney s gmail com>]

Hi Dan!

Thanks for you time for helping me.

I use a dial-up 56k connection, I'm afraid :(

How I Can make NM work with my dialup connection?

I've the hunch that if I make that work the VPN will work fine.

Thanks in advance for your help.

       Diosney

On Tue 12 Jun 2012 04:27:17 PM CDT, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 11:53 -0400, Diosney Sarmiento wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > The issue I've is that when I connect via modem through gnome-ppp the
> > Network Manager Applet don't detect a connection and don't let me use
> > the configured VPNs via its interface.
> >
> >
> > How Can I manually activate the Network Manager Applet or make it aware
> > of the ppp connection?
>
> Ideally we figure out why NM can't handle the connection.  Is it a
> dial-up 56k connection?  Is it a 3G modem?
>
> > What I need is to enable the Network Manager apple in order to use the
> > "VPN Connection" section of the GUI.
>
> NM needs to know various details about the underlying PPP connection to
> be able to layer a VPN on top of it, like what the DNS servers that the
> PPP connection provided are, what IP address got assigned to the PPP
> interface, etc.  So that when you start or stop the VPN connection, that
> NM can reset the correct DNS servers from PPP and reset the routing.
> And the easiest way to really do that is to teach NM about the
> underlying device that you've got.
>
> Dan
>
> > When I don't have an ethernet cable connected and I connect through a
> > modem the Network Manager applet doesn't enables itself, it is like if
> > don't recognizes the ppp0 interface. My question is: there is a way to
> > force the Network Manager GUI indicator to make it
> > "alive"/"up"/"enabled" in order to use the "VPN Connections"section?
> >
> >
> > pd. I'm using Ubuntu 11.10
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance.