[Wylug-help] VPN connection using GUI (KDE / NetworkManager)

[John Hodrien]

On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Gary Stainburn wrote:

> Hi folks.
>
> I want to configure a VPN for my laptop, but rather than the way I normally do
> things using command line / scripts I thought I would use NetworkManager.
>
> I've googled and found that I needed to add NetworkManager-pptp which I did
> (aling with a few others, see below).  However, when I open up the KDE
> control module for Network Manager and go to the VPN tab, the 'Add' button is
> disabled.
>
> Can anyone tell me what I need to do to enable it?

I was fairly sure that was it.  I've only successfully used this on CentOS 6,
but given that's F12/F13 era it should be the same.  I've also only ever tried
this with Gnome.  Could you double check from within GNOME to check that it's
not just brokenness in the KDE tool?

jh