Openconnect not available [Solved]

[pnbalaji]

Hi,

I just installed sabayon in my desktop as a trial. I am using Arch on my office laptop and it works pretty well (after several config). I plan to switch to sabayon if it works good. So far, it has been good and thanks to the developers for making such a great distro.

I need to connect to my work VPN using Cisco Anyconnect, which I don't prefer. So, I installed openconnect and networkmanager-openconnect packages from Rigo. However, from the networkmanager applet, when I click on Add button under VPN tab, Openconnect option is not listed even though I installed the packages.

Can some one help?

Thanks,
Balaji.

[svantoviit]

would start with installing these packages:

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[I] net-misc/networkmanager-openvpn (0.9.4.0@04/21/2012): NetworkManager OpenVPN plugin
[I] net-misc/networkmanager-vpnc (0.9.4.0@04/21/2012): NetworkManager VPNC plugin
[U] net-misc/openvpn (2.1.4@02/16/2011 -> 2.2.2): OpenVPN is a robust and highly flexible tunneling application compatible with many OSes.
[U] net-misc/vpnc (0.5.3_p457-r1@06/03/2011 -> (~)0.5.3_p514): Free client for Cisco VPN routing software

[pnbalaji]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

I installed all the ones along with the pptp component also. When I click the Add button in VPN tab, I am seeing VPNC and OpenVPN and PPTP, but not the openconnect option.

Thanks,
Balaji.

[pnbalaji]

Okay, Here is what I did.

It looks like Sabayon is looking for the TUN device at /dev/tun where as it is available in /dev/net/tun. So, I followed the below steps to get openconnect workings.

1. Create a symlink as /dev/tun with the command "sudo ln -s /dev/net/tun /dev/tun".
2. Download the vpnc-script from http://git.infradead.org/users/dwmw2/vp ... pnc-script
3. Run openconnect from command line with the command "sudo openconnect --script=/home/{userid}/vpnc-script {vpn_gateway}" assuming the vpnc-script is available under the user's home folder.
4. If you don't want to be asked for the root password, edit the /etc/sudoers file and uncomment the line with NOPASSWD=ALL with the wheel group. Make sure the user is part of the wheel group (check /etc/group).

Hope this will help some one.

Thanks,
Balaji.

[wraeth]

Greetings;

While the above post is a good workaround - initiating the VPN client via CLI, the issue lies with a few files that don't exist where they should (they actually aren't included in the Entropy package).

The missing files for this protocol are:

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/usr/lib64/NetworkManager/libnm-openconnect-properties.so
/usr/libexec/nm-openconnect-auth-dialog
/usr/share/gnome-vpn-properties/openconnect/nm-openconnect-dialog.ui


It should be noted that the same relative files are missing in the OpenSWAN plugin.

I got a copy of these files from a Fedora 3.4.4 kernel build, and can provide upon request, but this should be reported to the package distributors as the files should come with the Entropy package.

Hope this helps.

[pnbalaji]

After couple of updates, openconnect option is now available in Network Manager. I am not sure exactly when it started appearing, but it works fine now.