Good morning everybody,
I have the problem to get openvpn run with the KNetworkManager of Suse 10.3: I can connect my wlan card to the net without problem. But now I have to build a vpn-connection. If I do this by hand with openvpn using the following configuration file
configuration file /etc/openvpn/Uni-DSL.conf
client
dev tap
proto udp
remote vpn3.uni-dsl.de 1194
cipher AES-128-CBC
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
mute-replay-warnings
#ca keys/ca.crt
ca /etc/openvpn/Uni-DSL.crt
ns-cert-type server
verb 3
auth-user-pass
float
everything works fine, too. However, for more convenience, I would now like to achieve the same thing with the openvpn-tool in the knetworkmanager: So I transferred the data of the config file into the openvpn-configuration of knetworkmanager to the best of my knowledge, but failed to obtain a connection: ‘The VPN login failed because the VPN program could not connect to the VPN server.’.
Here the relevant part of the log-file:
/var/log/NetworkManager
Jun 4 08:46:07 localhost NetworkManager: <info> Will activate VPN connection ‘Uni-DSL Aachen’, service ‘org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn’, user_name ‘junker’, vpn_data ‘connection-type / password / remote / vpn3.uni-dsl.de / port / 1194 / ca / /etc/openvpn/Uni-DSL.crt / cert / / key / / cipher / AES-128-CBC / shared-key / / username / 22038 / local-ip / / remote-ip / / dev / tap / proto / tcp / ta-dir / none’, route ‘’.
Jun 4 08:46:07 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN Activation (Uni-DSL Aachen) Stage 1 of 4 (Connection Prepare) scheduled…
Jun 4 08:46:07 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN Activation (Uni-DSL Aachen) Stage 1 of 4 (Connection Prepare) ran VPN service daemon org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn (PID 3905)
Jun 4 08:46:07 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN Activation (Uni-DSL Aachen) Stage 1 of 4 (Connection Prepare) complete.
Jun 4 08:46:07 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN Activation (Uni-DSL Aachen) Stage 2 of 4 (Connection Prepare Wait) scheduled…
Jun 4 08:46:07 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN service ‘org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn’ signaled state change 1 → 6.
Jun 4 08:46:07 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN Activation (Uni-DSL Aachen) Stage 2 of 4 (Connection Prepare Wait) waiting…
Jun 4 08:46:07 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN Activation (Uni-DSL Aachen) Stage 2 of 4 (Connection Prepare Wait) complete.
Jun 4 08:46:07 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN Activation (Uni-DSL Aachen) Stage 3 of 4 (Connect) scheduled…
Jun 4 08:46:07 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN Activation (Uni-DSL Aachen) Stage 3 of 4 (Connect) sending connect request.
Jun 4 08:46:07 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN Activation (Uni-DSL Aachen) Stage 3 of 4 (Connect) request sent, waiting for reply…
Jun 4 08:46:07 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN service ‘org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn’ signaled state change 6 → 3.
Jun 4 08:46:07 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN Activation (Uni-DSL Aachen) Stage 3 of 4 (Connect) reply received.
Jun 4 08:46:07 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN Activation (Uni-DSL Aachen) Stage 4 of 4 (IP Config Get) timeout scheduled…
Jun 4 08:46:07 localhost NetworkManager: <info> VPN Activation (Uni-DSL Aachen) Stage 3 of 4 (Connect) complete, waiting for IP configuration…
Jun 4 08:46:17 localhost NetworkManager: <WARN> nm_vpn_service_process_signal(): VPN failed for service ‘org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.openvpn’, signal ‘ConnectFailed’, with message ‘The VPN login failed because the VPN program could not connect to the VPN server.’.
It seems that the IP-configuration fails. I played around with the settings, but no success.
Does anyone have a clue what I am doing wrong?
Thanks for any help in advance.
Wolfgang