Network Management doesn't understand/support VLAN interfaces/connections. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. configure your system such that there are only VLAN connections (I configured mine by manually creating RedHat-style ifcfg files - an example of one such is attached) 2. verify that NetworkManager is able to connect the VLAN(s), this is what nmcli reports on my system: # nmcli nm RUNNING STATE WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN running connected enabled enabled enabled disabled # nmcli con NAME UUID TYPE TIMESTAMP-REAL System em1 vlan 20 0caec10a-57b2-c417-090a-d8f16da77e2d vlan Thu 04 Oct 2012 11:06:08 PM CEST System em1 vlan 10 9875791f-d51b-e1f9-6766-853b8168c97a vlan Thu 04 Oct 2012 11:06:08 PM CEST # nmcli dev DEVICE TYPE STATE p4p1 802-3-ethernet unavailable p3p1 802-3-ethernet unavailable vlan10 vlan connected vlan20 vlan connected em1 802-3-ethernet disconnected 3. start a KDE session and observe the state of the Network Management widget/systray icon and the information it displays Actual Results: The Network Management systray icon has the "not connected" appearance. The information in the popup window displayed when the systray icon is clicked doesn't match that provided by nmcli. See the attached screencap of what is displayed on my system and compare with the information nmcli reports which I mentioned in the step 2) Expected Results: The systray icon has the "connected" appearance. The information in the popup window matches that provided by nmcli, namely: - the VLAN interfaces are included in the list of the interfaces in the left hand half of the popup window - the VLAN connections in the right hand half of the window are only highlighted when hovering over the appropriate VLAN interface (and not when hovering over the underlying 802-3-ethernet interface) A side effect of the described behaviour is that it is not possible to connect through the GUI to any VPN as the widget just does not display any such option. The connection management dialog window most probably needs an update too as it currently treats the VLAN connections as plain (Wired) Ethernet connections (I was too afraid of possible ill effects to try to edit the VLAN connection properties using that tool)
Created attachment 74342 [details] RedHat style VLAN ifcfg file example A RedHat style VLAN ifcfg file example understood by NetworkManager but causing troubles to KDE's Network Management.
Created attachment 74343 [details] Screencap of Network Mangement widget dislpaying VLANs Screencap of the what Network Management displays on my system in presence of VLANs.
Well, I do not have time to implement this now. If nobody else step up to implement this I am afraid it will take a good deal of time to see it working in Plasma NM.