Can't add VPN connection to network manager

[bcd87]

Hi there,

Topic says it all really, for some reason the Add button on the VPN tab in network manager is greyed out. How do I get it to work?

[SamNSane]

I wonder if this "VPN" is for creating dial-up VPN instances.

I don't know, just asking the question. On the Windows side I've set up a lot of VPN connections, but I never once used the Windows create a VPN connection option.

[hansblitz]

yeah, you gotta install some extra packages. something like openvpn. just type vpn in add/remove and install it.

[wetling]

I used Synaptic to search for "VPN". Since we're using Cisco's VPN solution, I installed network-manager-vpnc, then I was able to configure the VPN connection through the network manager GUI.

[tbsalling]

This did it for me on Ubuntu 8.10:

sudo apt-get install network-manager-openvpn

/Thomas.

[Johnsie]

In a modern operating system this should work out of the box. I don't know about OSX, but Windows 7 certainly has this feature out of the box and it s reasonably easy to configure.

[XCan]

Well, or at least give the user some hint of it, instead of only showing a grayed-out box.

[matt082606]

I agree this should be built in. I have installed the vpn via:
sudo apt-get install network-manager-openvpn

and it gave me the add button. However after filling in the details I never get the APPLY button to become available.

Anyone have that issue? The VPN I am trying to set up is just a simple password authentication.

Thanks

[AnUser]

I agree this should be built in. I have installed the vpn via:
sudo apt-get install network-manager-openvpn

and it gave me the add button. However after filling in the details I never get the APPLY button to become available.

Anyone have that issue? The VPN I am trying to set up is just a simple password authentication.

Thanks

I'm having the exact same problem. Any help is appreciated.

[allmanbro2]

This link:

http://www.craigmayhew.com/blog/2009...-karmic-koala/

suggests adding these three packages using the following command:

sudo apt-get install network-manager-pptp network-manager-vpnc network-manager-openvpn

That gets past the gray add button, then the gray apply button. I'm running into other problems now, but my fingers are crossed...