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Gert Kulyk (gkulyk) wrote : Re: Network manager conflicts with Cisco VPN client or the other way round

For me it works fine - are you using cable and wireless-network simultaniously? There is a setting in the profile-file (EnableLocalLAN), which may disable other network-cards, if you are connecting to your university. If the connection is realized through cable (or the cisco-client tries to do so), wireless gets disabled. The EnableLocalLAN-setting defaults to 0, change it to 1 and retry.

Another possibility is that you are encountering Bug #42504. As for my university-account (Free University Berlin), the initial connection is unencrypted. There are issues with wpaclient and network-manager connecting to unencrypted networks. A possible workaround (patched packages) is available in the comments to the bug-report mentioned above.