Network Manager oddness (what's new you may ask!)

[Dirk Freitag]

Res wrote:
> Chris, if you don't use VPN via NM, I suggest you look at wicd to replace 
> NM.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Chris G wrote:
> 
>> Until recently the Network Manager applet in my top panel did what it
>> was supposed to do and caused no problems.
>>
>> Just recently though (not sure when this happened as I rarely use it)
>> it seems to have lost the plot somewhat.  When I right click on it and
>> select Connection Information from the menu it just pops up amessage
>> box saying:-
>>
>>    Error displaying connection information:
>>    No valid active connections found!
>>
>> But everything is actually working fine, my computer is on a LAN
>> behind a router, I can see the other systems on the LAN and I can use
>> the internet as I always could.
>>
>> If I click on Edit Connections then the *only* connection that Network
>> Manager seems to know about is a Mobile Broadband one which I don't
>> use and which is correctly set not to connect automatically.  Nothing
>> shows up in Wired which is where my working connection should be.
>>
>>
> 

This might be a repetitive question, and for that I apologize, but can 
you not connect to a VPN through wicd?


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Dirk Freitag
Linux Registered User Number 487244          [http://counter.li.org/]

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