I was also able to find resolution by installing the below packages. I had wrongly made the assumption that vpn was part of the out of box experience - I'm kicking myself for not seeing the obvious now though.
I do think this would be a welcomed addition in the future especially for users like myself who are just not picking up linux.
Thank you for your help,
Devin
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From: <email address hidden> on behalf of Pete Goodall
Sent: Tue 10/21/2008 7:19 AM
To: McBride, Devin
Subject: [Bug 258185] Re: Cannot add a vpn connection through Network Manager
I'm glad you have things sorted, and I think you suggestion is a good
one. We are obviously way beyond feature freeze for Intrepid, but this
feedback can be considered for Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04). I will file a
separate enhancement bug.
Devin McBride, are you still seeing this behaviour and if so do you have
all the required packages installed?
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Status in "network-manager-openvpn" source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
I have installed openvpn and network-manager-openvpn, but when I click on nm-applet -> VPN Connections -> Configure VPN, the [ Add ] button is inactive, as are all the buttons in this tab. All the other nm-applet tabs (Wired, Wireless, Mobile Broadband, DSL) have active buttons. Afaict, I cannot configure a vpn with Network Manager.
I was also able to find resolution by installing the below packages. I had wrongly made the assumption that vpn was part of the out of box experience - I'm kicking myself for not seeing the obvious now though.
I do think this would be a welcomed addition in the future especially for users like myself who are just not picking up linux.
Thank you for your help,
Devin
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From: <email address hidden> on behalf of Pete Goodall
Sent: Tue 10/21/2008 7:19 AM
To: McBride, Devin
Subject: [Bug 258185] Re: Cannot add a vpn connection through Network Manager
I'm glad you have things sorted, and I think you suggestion is a good
one. We are obviously way beyond feature freeze for Intrepid, but this
feedback can be considered for Jaunty (Ubuntu 9.04). I will file a
separate enhancement bug.
Devin McBride, are you still seeing this behaviour and if so do you have
all the required packages installed?
-- /bugs.launchpad .net/bugs/ 258185
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Status in "network- manager- openvpn" source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
Bug description: manager- openvpn
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I have installed openvpn and network- manager- openvpn, but when I click on nm-applet -> VPN Connections -> Configure VPN, the [ Add ] button is inactive, as are all the buttons in this tab. All the other nm-applet tabs (Wired, Wireless, Mobile Broadband, DSL) have active buttons. Afaict, I cannot configure a vpn with Network Manager.