How to: Install Network Manager 0.7 SVN on Hardy

[Darrena]

Alexander Sack is creating packages for Hardy of Network Manager 0.7 SVN Snapshots. To install them add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/network-manager/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/network-manager/ubuntu hardy main

Update the your local repositories with:

sudo apt-get update

Then update the system:

sudo apt-get upgrade

This will pull in an updated wpa_supplicant package along with the updated Network-Manager package.


Notes:
1) Make sure you can configure your network by hand if this breaks your networking so you can recover it. If you can't afford to be without network connectivity do not try this!
2) The VPN plugins can be downloaded from SVN. VPNC and OpenVPN work but PPTP does not. Instructions for building these plugins are later on in this thread.
3) Some important new features are: GSM/CDMA aircard support, static IP address support, multiple interface support, profiles, etc...
4) If you get an error that the applet cannot start since some resources are not available enter the following command from a terminal:

sudo update-icon-caches

If you would like to see a preview of NetworkManager 0.7 see:
http://www.darrenalbers.net/blog/?p=9

VPN Plugins: See Page 2 for VPNC and OpenVPN Plugin installation instructions, note that the PPTP plugin does not work in SVN yet.

Post any issues here and I will help with what I can.

Updated on July 3rd to use Alexander Sack's PPA, instructions for upgrading from my packages to Alexander's packages are available at:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...8&postcount=82