Hello everybody,
since I set up - or wanted to set up - an "openVPN" connection a few days ago, I've recognized some problems with the network manager.
I have set up a TCP and a UDP openVPN connection - according to the instructions of my VPN provider - and manually, if I click on the icon in the menu bar above, I can easily connect via VPN:
But: when I restart the PC / Ubuntu, VPN is never active, I always have to select it manually in the bar (yes, its german, it just says, that VPN is not started):
If I now select the "Settings" in this menu, I only get to the system settings, but not to those of the network manager (still german, just to show you, what happens):
The only way to get to the NM settings is for me to run "nw-applet" in the terminal. Then another network symbol appears in the menu bar above, which then shows the NM settings:
In the NM settings I can then choose that VPN should be used automatically when the selected network connection is started ...
... but when I choose that, when I restart the system, the only error message is "Activation of the network connection failed" - and my PC / Ubuntu does not connect to the wifi at all.
When the PC has finished loading, the network is deactivated in the menu bar above.
But if I go to "Activate network" and choose my wifi connection - Ubuntu connects to the wifi without any problems and VPN is also started automatically.
To come back briefly to my terminal command "nm-applet":
As long as I have the terminal open, I can see the "second" network symbol at the top, via which I get to the NM settings, but when I close the terminal, there is a warning that "a process is still running" and that this then it will also be closed ...
... and if the terminal is then closed, the second network symbol also disappears from the menu bar and I can no longer access the NM Manager Settings.
Since I can manually connect to the network and VPN without any problems, so the VPN settings are obviously correct, I simply do not understand why I can no longer automatically access the WLAN when I restart if I check the corresponding box in the NM Manager. .. and if I remove the VPN tick again, everything is back to the old one and works (except of course the automatic connection to the VPN
)
Something is totally strange here ?!
since I set up - or wanted to set up - an "openVPN" connection a few days ago, I've recognized some problems with the network manager.
I have set up a TCP and a UDP openVPN connection - according to the instructions of my VPN provider - and manually, if I click on the icon in the menu bar above, I can easily connect via VPN:
But: when I restart the PC / Ubuntu, VPN is never active, I always have to select it manually in the bar (yes, its german, it just says, that VPN is not started):
If I now select the "Settings" in this menu, I only get to the system settings, but not to those of the network manager (still german, just to show you, what happens):
The only way to get to the NM settings is for me to run "nw-applet" in the terminal. Then another network symbol appears in the menu bar above, which then shows the NM settings:
In the NM settings I can then choose that VPN should be used automatically when the selected network connection is started ...
... but when I choose that, when I restart the system, the only error message is "Activation of the network connection failed" - and my PC / Ubuntu does not connect to the wifi at all.
When the PC has finished loading, the network is deactivated in the menu bar above.
But if I go to "Activate network" and choose my wifi connection - Ubuntu connects to the wifi without any problems and VPN is also started automatically.
To come back briefly to my terminal command "nm-applet":
As long as I have the terminal open, I can see the "second" network symbol at the top, via which I get to the NM settings, but when I close the terminal, there is a warning that "a process is still running" and that this then it will also be closed ...
... and if the terminal is then closed, the second network symbol also disappears from the menu bar and I can no longer access the NM Manager Settings.
Since I can manually connect to the network and VPN without any problems, so the VPN settings are obviously correct, I simply do not understand why I can no longer automatically access the WLAN when I restart if I check the corresponding box in the NM Manager. .. and if I remove the VPN tick again, everything is back to the old one and works (except of course the automatic connection to the VPN
)Something is totally strange here ?!
