testers wanted for knetworkmanager 0.7

Manuel Olbrich dschie at schnitzelfalle.de
Sun Jul 20 22:57:18 BST 2008


Ethernet and WPA work both here on Hardy/KDE4, but vpn (atl least with 
cisco/vpnc) won't. I'm able to set up the VPN-Config, but when trying to 
connect, it looks like nothing happens. 

in daemons.log, NetworkManager leaves this (which looks to me like NM cant 
manage to get the login data from knetworkmanager):
Jul 20 23:38:45 mo NetworkManager: <info>  Starting VPN service 
'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc'...
Jul 20 23:38:45 mo NetworkManager: <info>  VPN service 
'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' started 
(org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc), PID 2221
Jul 20 23:38:45 mo NetworkManager: <info>  VPN service 
'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' just appeared, activating connections
Jul 20 23:38:45 mo NetworkManager: <info>  VPN service 
'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc' just appeared, activating connections
Jul 20 23:38:45 mo NetworkManager: nm_vpn_connection_activate: assertion 
`nm_vpn_connection_get_vpn_state (connection) == 
NM_VPN_CONNECTION_STATE_PREPARE' failed
Jul 20 23:38:45 mo NetworkManager: nm-vpn-connection.c.842: NeedSecrets 
failed: dbus-glib-error-quark Method "NeedSecrets" with signature "a{sa{sv}}" 
on interface "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.VPN.Plugin" doesn't exist
Jul 20 23:38:45 mo NetworkManager: <WARN>  connection_vpn_state_changed(): 
Method "Disconnect" with signature "" on interface 
"org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.VPN.Plugin" doesn't exist


Manuel


On Tuesday 15 July 2008 15:00:48 Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> Hi all, please test knetworkmanager 0.7
>
> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/network-manager/ubuntu intrepid main
>
> or
>
> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/network-manager/ubuntu hardy main
>
> As well as working with wifi it should work with wired ethernet, 3G mobile
> phone modems, various VPN setups and static IP addresses.
>
> Jonathan




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