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

[Adam Funk <a.funk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[18/09/08 13:31] Chris Warburton wrote:
> 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.
...
> 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

As I understand it (from looking at Diana's netbook yesterday), the
problem is that the VPN client packages are installed, but the "Red Hat
thingy" that seems to be equivalent to the Debian/Ubuntu NetworkManager
applet just lists the WLANs it detects; the VPN option doesn't appear.

I think she needs to figure out mainly how to make the thingy show that
option.


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