I've just installed Fedora 14 with KDE 4.5.2 and I have created VPN entries in Network Manager but how do I activate any of those entries ? I have tried everything I could think of but so far no success. I have all the plugins installed and I have no problems of creating VPN connection from GNOME but not from KDE.

Any ideas ?

Tom

You should see those entries in your list of "Connections" on the right side of the Network Management applet.

Thanks for your reply. Yes I can see them but I seemed unable to trigger them to connect to a VPN gateway. I tried mouse click, left, right button and so far no success. All I get is a configuration dialog.

Tom

I gather you see something similar to this where you are trying to activate your connection?

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That's correct. My VPN entries are in the right hand plane. I'm expecting to be able to active one of them and to be presented with a dialog box allowing me to enter key from my security card.

Tom

If you click one of them, then are presented with the configuration dialog, this likely means it is requesting further information. Please provide all information to that dialog.

Sensitive details entered in there will be stored in KWallet which is itself encyrpted and can be locked with a password.

I have already provided all the information. Only thing missing is the key that gets generated on my RSA SecurID dongle. The filed for password is marked as "Always Ask" and is greyed out so I can't enter it there.

I have a feeling that this application is not finished. Pity this is the only thing that makes me to use GNOME since its VPN client works perfectly.

Tom

hubbycat wrote:I've just installed Fedora 14 with KDE 4.5.2 and I have created VPN entries in Network Manager but how do I activate any of those entries ? I have tried everything I could think of but so far no success. I have all the plugins installed and I have no problems of creating VPN connection from GNOME but not from KDE.

Any ideas ?

Tom

Knetworkmanager is so buggy that I eventually gave up. I use nm-applet in KDE...

Thanks for your suggestion. As you I find Knetworkmanager lacking I'll try your suggestion.

Tom

Had the same problem so I looked into System log that said:
<warn> connection /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/7 failed to activate: (2) The VPN service 'org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn' was not installed.

So I :
sudo apt-get install network-manager-openvpn

Reconfigured VPN networks, and it solved my problem

Just wanted to confirm what keddme said about the system log saying it was missing vpnc (in my case). apt-get installed network-manager-vpnc and it worked. This was on Linux Mint KDE, Maya.