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keba
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Hi,
I installed vpnc a few days ago, and when I run it, I get a really wierd error concerning a wlan0 card I don't even have on my computer... VPNC works anyway, but that error bothers me. Do you have any idea how I could get it away? Thanks
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Enter username for server: something
Enter password for something@server:
Device "wlan0
wlan0" does not exist.
SIOCSIFMTU: Argument invalide
VPNC started in background (pid: 7860)...
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| Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 10:54 am Post subject: |
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| Well, perhaps vpnc tries to do something with wlan0. You mostly see these errors when a specific function is not implemented. What does your vpnc conf file look like? |
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keba
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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I'm sorry I couldn't answer sooner. I didn't change the /etc/vpnc/default.conf, I just added my own specific file so I'm able to issue vpnc ethz. The file is called ethz.conf:
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## generated by pcf2vpnc
IPSec ID ETHZ
IPSec gateway vpn-cluster.ethz.ch
IPSec secret ETHZ.GROUP
IKE Authmode psk
IKE DH Group dh2
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2010 12:55 pm Post subject: |
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Okay, and what are the contents in:
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keba
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 9:33 am Post subject: |
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Here you go: /etc/vpnc/default.conf:
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IPSec gateway <gateway>
IPSec ID <group-id>
IPSec secret <group-psk>
IKE Authmode hybrid
Xauth username <username>
Xauth password <password>
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and /etc/vpnc.conf does not exist
BTW: I do not start any network scripts other than /etc/net.lo since NetworkManager doesn't need them
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| Try moving the /etc/vpnc/default.conf out of the way (mv /etc/vpnc/default.conf /etc/vpnc/default.conf.off) and see if the error disappears. |
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| Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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That works... If I'd known it was so easy. But it's strange anyway. Thanks a lot
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| Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 8:08 am Post subject: |
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That's weird, the message is back again. So it wasn't /etc/vpnc/default.conf... Any ideas?
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| Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 9:44 am Post subject: |
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So, it DID disappear right? Perhaps /etc/vpnc/default.conf exists again for some weird reason?  |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 10:13 am Post subject: |
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Exactly my thought. So I checked that and it doesn't. Which is why I'm a bit confused.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 1:50 pm Post subject: |
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I'm stumped by the outcome  . Didn't you change *anything* in the mean time? |
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| Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2010 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm, now default.conf is there again. My fault, I guess I didn't see it last time I checked, I'm really sorry for the wrong post.
So it really looks like the error is because of it, somehow. And if deleting it doesn't help, then what can I do.
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That is just weird lol  . Try an empty default.conf and see if that helps. |
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