On 12/16/2008 07:37:17 AM, Dan Williams wrote: > On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 13:43 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > On 12/15/2008 09:45:15 AM, Dan Williams wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 09:25 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > > > On 12/15/2008 07:44:08 AM, Dan Williams wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 10:05 -0800, Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > > > > > Could someone outline (or provide a pointer to) the role > played > > > by > > > > > > NetworkManager-openvpn (in v 0.7)? I notice that the > openvpm > > > > > > service > > > > > > > > > > > dies on startup, although there appear to be no ill effects > > > from > > > > > that. > > > > > > > > > > You my be running an older version of openvpn (2.1 rc8 or > lower?) > > > > > that > > > > > doesn't accept the --script-security argument. Is that the > case? > > > > > > > > > > Basically, NetworkManager-openvpn is the openvpn plugin to > allow > > > NM > > > > > to > > > > > connect to OpenVPN VPN servers. When you ask NM to activate > an > > > > > OpenVPN > > > > > connection, NM launches nm-openvpn-service which handles the > > > actual > > > > > connection task. > > > > > > > > > > If --script-security isn't the problem, then we can try to > debug > > > this > > > > > further by just running '/usr/libexec/nm-openvpn-service' as > > > root, > > > > > then > > > > > connecting from the NM applet menu. That will spit out more > > > debug > > > > > info, > > > > > which we can look at to find out what the problem is. > > > > > > > > I'm running openvpn-2.1-0.28.rc9.fc10.i386 > > > > > > > > I'm happy to assist with any debugging. FWIW, > wpa_supplicant.log > > > gets > > > > CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS on executing /usr/libexec/nm-openvpn- > > > service > > > as > > > > root. In that log, I see > > > > Trying to associate with 00:18:4d:88:55:c2 (SSID='Netgear' > > > freq=2462 > > > > > > > MHz) > > > > Associated with 00:18:4d:88:55:c2 > > > > CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:18:4d:88:55:c2 > completed > > > (auth) > > > > [id=0 id_str=] > > > > CTRL-EVENT-SCAN-RESULTS > > > > .... > > > > > > What's the output from running "/usr/libexec/nm-openvpn-service" > as > > > root, and then trying to connect with NM? That program should > print > > > out > > > some information that we can use to debug further. > > > > Hmmmm ... perhaps I don't get it. > > Stopped NM > > execute nm-openvpn-service > > Start NM > > > > NM starts normally; no output. Should I be looking elsewhere? > > Did you then activate the VPN connection from the applet menu?
Aaaaa Ha! No I did not. Can you point me to doc on how to configure? _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
