Speaking of Network Manager ...
 

Version 1.2 was released Wednesday ( 2016-04-20 ):

https://mail.gnome.org/archives/netw.../msg00064.html

and

https://blogs.gnome.org/lkundrak/201...r-1-2-is-here/

Sounds like there are a lot of systemd dependencies ...

-- kjh

Too late for us #post5534140

Well, stranger things have happened. Re systemd, no hard deps - just that 1.2.x will use systemd stuff if it happens to be present.

If the WIFI has improved as claimed in the changelog I would be great if it would indeed be considered. For me the version in current works very poorly in networks that have many access-points with the same name (read Eduroam). Essentially it fails to connect most of the time to such a network, which appears a known problem with Networkmanager.

Thanks All !

I 'found' the NetworkManager 1.2.x thread in the Sticky 'Requests for Current ...' Topic after posting.

I should have known y'all would be on it !

Still going to try NM instead of wicd this weekend, including the suggestion to try changing the DHCP Plugin.

-- kjh

n/NetworkManager-1.2.0-i586-1.txz: Upgraded.
Thanks to Robby Workman.

Indeed. It's a strange world. You are THE man Robby. Thanks

Running Slackware64-current, and just uploaded the latest upgrades. NetworkManager-1.2 working great, but I was only running NetworkManager-openvpn-1.0.8. When I tried to compile Networkmanager-openvpn-1.2.0, it crashed with the following error:
Searching for gio.h produces:
I'm running a home-rolled kernel 4.4.3.

What have I missed?

Cheers,

--
Pete

gio.h is part of glib2 package

have you tested with one SlackBuild:

https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1...nager-openvpn/

just change the version in the SlackBuild

Thanks for the responses, folks.

gmgf: glib2 is installed, as per my original post:
and yes, I was using the slackbuilds.org SlackBuild. It worked fine for 1.0.8. Looks like something may have changed in the meantime....

Just to double check:
Plenty of instances of it around, so I'm not sure why it isn't being found.

--
Pete

it compil here on x86_64

it depend on:

NetworkManager,at-spi2-atk,at-spi2-core,atk,bzip2,cairo,dbus,dbus-glib,eudev,expat,fontconfig,freetype,gcc-g++,gdk-pixbuf2,glib2,glibc-solibs,gtk+3,harfbuzz,icu4c,libICE,libSM,libX11,libXau,libXcomposite,libXcursor,libXdamage,libXdmcp, libXext,libXfixes,libXi,libXinerama,libXrandr,libXrender,libXxf86vm,libdrm,libepoxy,libffi,libgcrypt ,libgpg-error,libgudev,libpng,libsecret,libxcb,libxshmfence,mesa,network-manager-applet,pango,pixman,sqlite,util-linux,zlib

look if you have all depend installed

gmgf: Yes, all those dependencies are installed.

I'll try and get a closer look today, but at the moment, I'm stumped!

--
Pete

gmgf: Just a thought - what do you get when you run
?

I'm wondering if you (and perhaps Robby?) have one hanging around somewhere from an old build, that I don't, and therefore openvpn can't find it? It would be interesting to compare the output you get with my result for the same command.

--
Pete

Perhaps the solution would be to reinstall (glib, gtk) and all packages linked on them

locate: warning: database /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db' is more than 8 days old
/usr/src/linux-4.1.5gm/arch/um/include/shared/sigio.h
/usr/src/linux-4.1.5gm/arch/sh/include/mach-landisk/mach/gio.h
/usr/src/linux-4.1.5gm/arch/mips/include/asm/sgi/gio.h
/usr/src/linux-4.1.4gm/arch/um/include/shared/sigio.h
/usr/src/linux-4.1.4gm/arch/sh/include/mach-landisk/mach/gio.h
/usr/src/linux-4.1.4gm/arch/mips/include/asm/sgi/gio.h
/usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/gio.h
/usr/include/libgsf-1/gsf/gsf-output-gio.h
/usr/include/libgsf-1/gsf/gsf-input-gio.h
/usr/include/gmime-2.6/gmime/gmime-stream-gio.h
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gst-plugins-base-plugins-1.0/gst-plugins-base-plugins-plugin-gio.html
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gst-plugins-base-plugins-0.10/gst-plugins-base-plugins-plugin-gio.html
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gio/extending-gio.html
/var/www/htdocs/manual/mod/mod_logio.html