Hi, I've succesfullly installed Networkmanager and nm-applet with all the plugins under Gnome / Kde-4-3 using the instructions can be found at gentoo-wiki. It is working perfectly for wired and wireless LAN but not for any VPN (this part of the applet is grey I was searching the archive and googled this thing but I cannot find a solution, so I decided to ask you :) I suppose this is some problem with the dbus registration of the plugins, but I'm not sure This is my versions [I] sys-apps/dbus Available versions: 1.2.3-r1 ~1.2.12 ~1.3.0 ~1.3.0-r1 {X debug doc selinux test} Installed versions: 1.2.3-r1(16.09.48 2009-11-17)(X -debug -doc -selinux) [I] net-misc/networkmanager Available versions: *0.6.5_p20070823 0.6.6 ~0.7.1-r3 0.7.1-r6 ~0.7.1_p20090824 [M]**0.8.0_pre20090824 [M]**0.8.0_pre20091105 {avahi bluetooth connection-sharing crypt debug dhclient dhcpcd doc gnome gnutls nss resolvconf} Installed versions: 0.7.1-r6(18.16.04 2009-10-19)(gnutls resolvconf -avahi -connection-sharing -dhclient -dhcpcd -doc -nss) Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ Description: Network configuration and management in an easy way. Desktop environment independent. [D] net-misc/networkmanager-openvpn Available versions: ~0.3.2_p20070621 ~0.7.1-r1 {crypt debug doc gnome} Installed versions: 0.7.1-r1(16.02.50 2009-11-17)(-gnome) Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ Description: NetworkManager OpenVPN plugin. [D] net-misc/networkmanager-pptp Available versions: ~0.1.0_p20070726 ~0.7.0 ~0.7.1 {crypt debug doc gnome} Installed versions: 0.7.1(16.03.03 2009-11-17)(-gnome) Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ Description: NetworkManager PPTP plugin. [D] net-misc/networkmanager-vpnc Available versions: ~0.6.4_p20070621 ~0.7.0 ~0.7.1 {crypt debug doc gnome} Installed versions: 0.7.1(16.03.15 2009-11-17)(-gnome) Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/ Description: NetworkManager VPNC plugin. Do you have any idea? Thank you L: