(k)ubuntu issues.

[John McGregor]

Colin Davidson wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> 
> A month or two ago I got an Acer Laptop and, just to see what all the 
> fuss was about, installed kubuntu. I have since had 3 rather serious (to 
> me) problems.
> 
> First, I want to get remote desktop (to my work windows XP box) working, 
> so that I can finally and completely bury the Vista install. However, I 
> am having trouble getting the MS VPN connection running. As I understand 
> it, this should be a really simple task using Network Manager. However, 
> despite install the network-manager-kde, network-manager and 
> network-manager-gnome packages (the last of which is supposedly required 
> because of a kde/network manager bug, I have made no progress. I found a 
> knetworkmanager entry in the kde/internet menu but clicking it causes 
> the machine to think and then, aparantly, do nothing. There is a network 
> manager status page available via an icon in the "system tray" (please 
> substitute whatever the current politically correct term is, if you 
> care), but all it does is display the wired ethernet adapter status, and 
> the page looks nothing like the knetworkmanager snapshots that I have 
> seen. I seem to have reached the end of my "google-fu" at this point. 
> Can anyone suggest further steps to take?
> 
<snip>

That's often typical behaviour with Knetworkmanger. Try wicd instead. 
You should find it in the Ubuntu / Kubuntu repositories. Installation 
instructions can be found on its website.

> http://wicd.sourceforge.net/

HTH

John
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