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

[NoOp]

On 04/17/2009 06:54 AM, Dirk Freitag wrote:
> 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?

You can. However you'll need to use do some manual configuring until
Version 1.6. See: <http://wicd.net/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=111>
<http://wicd.net/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=11>

Network-manager has built in features for easy VPN connects.
<http://www.google.com/search?complete=0&hl=en&q=ubuntu+%2Bnetwork-manager+%2Bvpn&btnG=Search>

Also of interest:
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-pptp/+bug/278153>
https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=vpn