[Debian-eeepc-devel] eeepc 900 and vpn

Gilles Mocellin gilles.mocellin at free.fr
Sun Sep 14 23:13:01 UTC 2008


On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 02:16:36PM +0100, Barney Ward wrote:
> Has anyone had any success setting up a vpn client on the eeepc 900  
> with kernel 2.6.26-1-686??
> I tried using Cisco vpnclient 4.8, but it wouldn't build against the  
> standard kernel header package 2.6.26-1-686 (I'm assuming I should be  
> using the headers package from Debian, and not a special version for  
> the eeepc install kernel ??). The error is : conflicting types for  
> 'uintptr_t'
> 
> When I try to use vpnc 0.5.1, I get various errors: If it has been  
> installed via apt-get it gives the error that it wasn't compiled with  
> openssl support (yes, I do have openssl!). If I try to build it  
> myself, and uncheck the relevant lines in the makefile to include  
> openssl in the build, I get build errors as it can't find openssl/ 
> x509.h or openssl/err.h. I can include full output if it's likely to  
> help at all.
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Strange, I thought that Cisco VPN, and so vpnc, were IPSEC VPN, not SSL ?

I can use vpnc with my Eeepc 701 againsta a Visco VPN concentrator.

Perhaps you use certificat authentification and not me (SecureID).



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