Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Manually activate Network Manager Applet


The issue I've is that when I connect via modem through gnome-ppp the Network Manager Applet don't detect a connection and don't let me use the configured VPNs via its interface.


How Can I manually activate the Network Manager Applet?


What I need is to enable the Network Manager apple in order to use the "VPN Connection" section of the GUI.


When I don't have an ethernet cable connected and I connect through a modem the Network Manager applet doesn't enables itself, it is like if don't recognizes the ppp0 interface. My question is: there is a way to force the Network Manager GUI indicator to make it "alive"/"up"/"enabled" in order to use the "VPN Connections"section?


Thanks in advance.



Finally I got a solution for my own but it is a tricky one and it isn't useful for the people that don't have a Wireless adaptor.


The steps what I did were:



  1. Enable the Wireless adaptor of my laptop by turning on the hardware switch.

  2. Create a new ad-hoc connection.

  3. Connect to the local wireless ad-hoc connection.

  4. The Network-Manager applet brings to live allowing us to select the VPN to connect through.


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