KDE Plasma App VPN not starting without managed ethernet

[Michael Butash <michael butash net>]

Greetings,

I installed kubuntu 13.10 tonight, and was trying to connect my vpn to 
work, but it seems that it won't start without having a managed ethernet 
adapter.  Because of using likewise-open and kerberos for AD auth on 
login, I have to force the interface to dhcp as soon as the OS comes up, 
thus it's non-NM managed.

Is there a way to get it to bypass this?  The error I get is this, I'm 
at least interpreting this missing "source connection" as that since 
NM's plasma widget shows "disconnected" when wired to the lan.

Jan  4 20:00:00 host NetworkManager[1347]: <warn> connect 
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/2 failed to activate: (0) Could 
not find source connection

I haven't see this issue on my current laptop using the gtk widget on 
13.10 for cvpn connections.

Thanks!

-mb