David Given's questions

I'm trying to use OpenVPN to connect to a work network. Unfortunately, the work network is behind a NAT, which means I have to use the float option to make it work.

Apparently, NetworkManager does not support the float option --- there appears to be no way of specifying it in the configuration options.

I don't want to lose NetworkManager, because it provides a very convenient way of connecting to random wireless networks; but I have to use OpenVPN. I've tried using OpenVPN directly with a raw OpenVPN configuration file, and this correctly sets up the connection, but this now interacts horribly with NetworkManager so things like DNS and routing is all messed up.

Does anyone know any way of getting NetworkManager to support the float option?

Does anyone know how to make audio and video calls work with Pidgin (for those protocols that support it)?

Video is supposed to work on MSN, and audio is supposed to work on Google Talk, but whatever I try the Media->Audio Call and Media->Video Call menu options are always greyed out. My microphone and webcam are plugged in and work (and Empathy's video preferences can see them), so I know it's not a hadware problem; I have installed libgstfarsight0.10-0 and gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad; but I still can't make pidgin do audio calls.

This is with Pidgin 2.7.3 and Maverick.

Any ideas?

I've just installed Maverick, and while it seems to work so far, Empathy is unable to connect to my MSN account. I've verified that Pidgin can connect.

I've tried looking at the Empathy debug log, but all I see is:

Starting butterfly 0.5.14: telepathy-python 0.15.17, papyon 0.5.1

Failed to create Connection

Any suggestions as to what's going on here, and how to fix it?