jbodhorn
After a whole day of reading and trying to figure out how to make my vpn start on boot I have success, but now I have a new problem. I have Fedora 21 running on an acer c710 chromebook with coreboot/seabois from johnlewis.ie it's my primary computer. Whenever I shut my laptop it sleeps and then I lose internet. There doesn't seem to be a way to make it not sleep when I shut it, plus after not being used for a while it will sleep anyway with the lid open. I can get my internet back by stopping the vpn and restarting it from the command line so it's not a horribly big deal, but it is annoying, and I'm hoping someone here can help me with this.
I was trying out what is suggested on the arch wiki for vpn killing internet on sleep, but I had totally lost internet access at the end and undid it all cause it was late and I just wanted to relax at that point(and watch some netfilx....). I'm not sure if I did something wrong or if arch is different enough from fedora that I'd have had to make some changes. I'm a n00b to linux and networking and was unsuccessful at setting up a Raspberry Pi vpn server, this is why I bought vpn service through PIA.
When I lose internet I'm not quite sure why, but it seems like the vpn connects(or tries anyway) first and then the wifi or wired can't connect when they finally try. Wired or wifi, doesn't matter doing, sudo systemctl stop openvpn@US_East.service gets the internet back connected, then I have to do sudo systemctl start openvpn@US_East.service to reconnect the vpn, and finally I always check with sudo systemctl status openvpn@US_East.service to make sure the vpn is on.
If this problem gets fixed I'm guessing it would fix my next problem of hiccups in the network disconnecting the vpn, but I'm not sure. Before I had went to the prompt to fix my vpn on boot issue I was connecting through the network manager and wasn't having this problem, but my vpn would disconnect and not reconnect on its own, but everything else was fine, I had internet access, I just had to manually reconnect the vpn. This isn't the sort of thing you want happening if you are like me and using vpn for privacy.
One last question, is there any way other than going to the command line and checking the status to monitor my vpn status? At least connecting through network manager I have an icon at the top of my screen that will let me know I'm connected, disconnected, or connecting, is there a way to make that icon work?
jbodhorn
Thanks for the links, maybe they'll help even though I'm using fedora, at least point me in the right dirrection
