I loved wicd and used it for several years but finally gave up
and went with network-manager so that I could easily use a
private VPN when I'm out-and-about and connecting to access
points on the road.
I've never really been thrilled with network-manager, though at
least it works a lot better for me than it did years ago. Any
time following a distribution upgrade or doing a new
installation I can still count on some unpleasantness with
network-manager, but I always manage to get it straightened out
eventually.
I've seen a few comments by folks like Bob Proulx concerning
their appreciation of wicd, and I'm thinking of dropping the DE
I'm currently using and just using a window manager.
Under those circumstances, using wicd seems like a good idea.
But I've done a lot of searching on getting OpenVPN to work
without finding much that was of use to me.
For one thing, almost all of the how-to docs I can find are
explaining how to set up an OpenVPN server on a network at home.
Even the man pages seem to be all about that and not about what
I want to do. I want to find a way to use the OpenVPN client to
connect to a publicly available OpenVPN server.
The servers I use make use of a certificate downloaded to the
local machine and a shared secret. I'm already using the servers
via network-manager and the OpenVPN client.
If any of you has managed to do this in conjunction with wicd,
I'd really appreciate a pointer to information to help me get
started. The man pages are kicking me in the boinloins.
Heh.
Thanks,
JP
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