http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/openvpn-client-682343/

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/bin/nm-startvpn”, line 29, in
print interface.getVPNConnections()
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py”, line 68, in __call__
return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py”, line 140, in __call__
**keywords)
File “/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/connection.py”, line 607, in call_blocking
message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method “getVPNConnections” with signature “” on interface “org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.VPNConnections” doesn’t exist

However, I changed 02runcmd so that is just starts/stops openvpn and this works fine

#! /bin/sh

case “$2″ in
up)
/usr/sbin/rcopenvpn start
;;
down)
/usr/sbin/rcopenvpn stop
;;
esac

exit 0

but since i tested it an my configuration I think there is a problem in the sed command

your iwconfig $IFACE 2>&1 | grep ESSID | sed -e’s/.*ESSID:”\(.*\)”/\1/’ -e’s/ //g’
give me
802.1X”Nickname:”

so I changed it a little bit to
iwconfig $IFACE 2>&1 | grep ESSID | sed -e’s/.*ESSID:”\(.*\)”.*”.*”/\1/’ -e’s/ //g’

thx anyway
raporu

Thanks for the scripts I have implemented them for my home vpn connection I run over wireless. The only prob I have is that it fail to make the initial connection when you login after reboot or boot up and you get the pop up error saying it can’t establish the openvpn connection and you have to manually start it. Do you have the same problem? if not how have you got it to auto connect on login?

Nice scripts to by the way

Regards
Quail

I found out what had to be done through reading the source code and much trial and error. Took me about 6 hours to figure out that tiny script!

Might be good to update the earlier parts of the page to make this more explicit. Just out of interest, how did you find the details to write your script?

I have not tested with any other VPN connection apart from openvpn as well.

(To help Robin out: you can restart nm-applet by restarting NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher sevices if those should have bailed out as well (happende to me once while testing), in a terminal type:

ps -A |grep -i Network
# With the pid numbers you can now do:
sudo kill #PIDNRS

Do the same for nm-applet (grep -i nm)
Then restart NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher as root and start nm-applet using ctrl+F2)

I have taken a look at the source code of the networkmanager vpn dbus interface and I could not find any error’s in the code you used (then again, this was my first time I took a look at a phython script :p )

However we should get an output from the nm-applet (when running inside the console) saying it is connection to the VPN. (Don’t know the exact message, but run nm-applet inside the terminal and break the VPN cpnnection and set it up again, you’ll see what I mean)

I believe the script works for you Mithro? Are you running it as root, have got anything special configured? (eg inside your keyring) Anyhting that might explain the script to fail us?

I have been trying to autoconnect my vpn for a long time and basicly gave up because I didn’t feel like ‘hacking’ a script together, but this is reeeaaal close to a solution…

I hope I’ll hearing from you,
Mathijs

Starting ‘VPN_Name’ VPN
dbus.Array([dbus.String(u'VPN_Name')], signature=dbus.Signature(’s’))
(dbus.String(u’VPN_Name’), dbus.String(u’username’), dbus.String(u’org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.vpnc’), dbus.UInt32(1L))
None

I can’t restart the script manually afterwards. Not sure if that help to identify the problem.