I just noticed that Knetworkmanager was recently submitted to portage (Aug 23rd).
It has support for NetworkManager's vpn plugins as well (OpenVPN, PPTP, and VPNC).
This is great news. Currently, I had been maintaining a live build on KnetworkManager in the Xeffects overlay, which really needed some love and attention. Now, with version 0.2 actually in portage, I can remove this from the overlay in favor of a static/stable build.
knetworkmanager has still a lack: it cannot set the wpa pairwise (tkip for example), as the gnome version can. and this fact prevents me from using it in an enviroment which specifically asks for it. it would be very nice if this feature can be added.
ReplyDeleteIt would be great to get some additional detail regarding this.
ReplyDeleteIf you post a bug/feature request at bugs.gentoo-xeffects.org I can see if I can find/create a patch/fix for this. However, I need some specific details on hopw this works under Gnome and what is expected as proper in/out values.
If I can get it working, I'll pass along to the new portage maintainer and upstream.
thanks.
ReplyDeletei've posted a new feature request here:
http://bugs.gentoo-xeffects.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11
can you tell me how to patch the gentoo ebuild to include the patch here:
ReplyDeletehttp://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138504
thanks a lot.
I had a look at the patch and attempted to apply it to knetworkmanager-0.2 - No luck.
ReplyDeleteIt was made against the 0.1 source, and needs a lot of work to be updated against the 0.2 source.
I am going to be away for a while returning October 1st. When I return, I will try and update the patch to work with 0.2 source.
the tkip was corrected in the mainstream in the last svn build, so there is no need for you to loose your time on the patch when you return. there is still the password with the tls option that is not ok, but i've asked it in the maistream and see if they can help me.
ReplyDeletethanks a lot for you kind help with this matter.