Re: [Sheflug] Netbooks: who's got on, and how has it been?

[Chris Warburton <chriswarbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 18 September 2008 10:20:46 Diana Maynard wrote:
> Can anyone help? I've recently got an Acer Aspire One which I'm loving,
> apart from one thing.
> I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get a VPN working.
> I'm used to Ubuntu but am struggling a little with Linpus which I think
> is basically Red Hat.
> I've got various vpn client things installed according to the package
> manager thing, but I don't get any sign of anything resembling a vpn on
> the Connection Manager, so I'm at a loss how to proceed. The Acer Aspire
> One forum hasn't provided anything useful, nor has googling for it.
> Thanks
> Diana
> PS I'll probably install Ubuntu on it instead eventually, but don't have
> time right now and would really like to get the thing working.

I tried to get a VPN going on my laptop so I could use the "Unishef" wifi 
network on campus. It seems that every VPN supplier does things in a slightly 
different way, and the University uses Cisco's stuff.

The most likely way to get it working would be through NetworkManager 
http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ , I know Debian (and therefore 
probably Ubuntu) has packages called network-manager-openvpn, network-manager-
openvpn-gnome, network-manager-vpnc and network-manager-vpnc-gnome which you 
can try (I think the latter two are Cisco-specific).

If that doesn't work then there's a Cisco VPN client which the University 
links to here http://www.shef.ac.uk/cics/vpn/vpncisco.html however you'll 
probably need a guide like this http://popey.com/node/62 to get it installed 
(taking into account the different version numbers of course).

I hope that helps, since I must say it didn't work for me at all :P

Chris

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