Make Network Manager applet aware of ppp connections

[Diosney Sarmiento <diosney s gmail com>]

Hi

The issue I've is that when I connect via modem through gnome-ppp the 
Network Manager Applet don't detect a connection and don't let me use 
the configured VPNs via its interface.


How Can I manually activate the Network Manager Applet or make it aware 
of the ppp connection?


What I need is to enable the Network Manager apple in order to use the 
"VPN Connection" section of the GUI.


When I don't have an ethernet cable connected and I connect through a 
modem the Network Manager applet doesn't enables itself, it is like if 
don't recognizes the ppp0 interface. My question is: there is a way to 
force the Network Manager GUI indicator to make it 
"alive"/"up"/"enabled" in order to use the "VPN Connections"section?


pd. I'm using Ubuntu 11.10


Thanks in advance.

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        Diosney