How to manage networks from inside crouton?

[pcm2a]

Out of the box you have to manage your networks in chromeos. What if I would like to manage them inside of crouton instead?

The first thing I tried was to install network-manager (and rebooted):
apt-get install network-manager

After a reboot I had a new network icon in the top right and I also have Settings->Network Connections. The problem is everything is greyed out and it says that network management is disabled.

Next I tried to start up network management, but you cant use the Upstart (init.d) job since those don't work via chroot. I start up networking with 'sudo NetworkManagement'. As soon as I start that my wireless disconnects.

At this point wireless in Chrome OS is disconnected. Also wireless is disconnected in crouton. Now when I click the network icon I can see wireless connections...seems like we are closer. I try to pick one but it never asks me for a password. The Network Connections gui still has everything greyed out.

What is the trick to editing network connections in crouton?

[DennisLfromGA]

According to this explanation in Issue #248 - "Chromium OS has full control of networking, so it's not a good idea to try to control it from the chroot.". However, he does go on to tell you how to try anyway.

[pcm2a]

Thanks for the info that has gotten me slightly closer. I don't mind managing my connection in ChromeOS, my end goal was to be able to start and stop a Cisco VPN graphically and not via the command line.

Problem: In the network manager applet I cannot import or create VPN connections.

• I can click + Add but all the boxes are greyed out
• I can click Import but I can't save because the boxes are greyed out
  My thought was this is because crouton is not managing my network connection

First try: I started NetworkManager, which kills shill automatically.

• Still cannot edit anything

Second try: I editing /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf and changed managed=true

• I still cannot add or change anything

Third try: I plugged in a wired connection and internet does work but I still can't edit or anything

If I could somehow add this VPN connection maybe I would be able to start and stop it. From the command line does work.

[dnschneid]

The wiki has stuff on this now.

[robertoandrade]

Trying to do the same to use either the built in "Network Connections" GUI to register/import an .ovpn configuration and it shows it as disabled even though I installed the 'OpenVPN' plugin for NetworkManager. Same when importing via kvpnc. Any suggestions?

[daviday]

Any progress here? Haven't seen this closed, unless I missed it?

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On Dec 27, 2014, at 3:09 PM, Roberto Andrade notifications@github.com wrote:

Trying to do the same to use either the built in "Network Connections" GUI to register/import an .ovpn configuration and it shows it as disabled even though I installed the 'OpenVPN' plugin for NetworkManager. Same when importing via kvpnc. Any suggestions?

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