Comments on: Patch Cisco VPN Client and Linux Kernel 2.6.24

By: Jeroen tB

Jeroen tB — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:27:11 +0000

Thx ! This worked 4me on ubuntu 8.10.

By: G L

G L — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:12:25 +0000

No issues installing VPN Client Version 4.8.02 on 2.6.24-19-generic, after installing ‘build-essential’ and ‘linux-headers-generic’. No patches required.

By: Lubos Matejka

Lubos Matejka — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:34:58 +0000

I have this posible solution http://lubos.matejka.eu/download/vpnclient-2.6.26.patch

By: S.V. Sureshkumar

S.V. Sureshkumar — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:27:25 +0000

sudo /opt/vpnclient/vpn_install
Password:
Cisco Systems VPN Client Version 4.0.4 (B) Linux Installer
Copyright (C) 1998-2001 Cisco Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

By installing this product you agree that you have read the
license.txt file (The VPN Client license) and will comply with
its terms.

Directory where binaries will be installed [/usr/local/bin]

Automatically start the VPN service at boot time [yes] y

In order to build the VPN kernel module, you must have the
kernel headers for the version of the kernel you are running.

For RedHat 6.x users these files are installed in /usr/src/linux by default
For RedHat 7.x users these files are installed in /usr/src/linux-2.4 by default
For Suse 7.3 users these files are installed in /usr/src/linux-2.4.10.SuSE by default

Directory containing linux kernel source code [] /lib/modules/2.6.18-6-486/

* Binaries will be installed in “/usr/local/bin”.
* Modules will be installed in “/lib/modules/2.6.18-6-486/CiscoVPN”.
* The VPN service will be started AUTOMATICALLY at boot time.
* Kernel source from “/lib/modules/2.6.18-6-486/” will be used to build the module.

Is the above correct [y] y

Making module
sh: ./driver_build.sh: No such file or directory
Failed to make module “cisco_ipsec.ko”.

Please give me the steps for installing VPN in debian linux environment
S.V.Sureshkumar

By: Hunter Loftis

Hunter Loftis — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:18:28 +0000

This will not install from a directory with spaces in it (ie, /home/user/my installers/vpnclient”). You have to move it somewhere without spaces. Lame, but that’s a fix.

By: Magalas_79

Magalas_79 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:26:21 +0000

It works with vpnclient-linux-x86_64-4.8.01.0640-k9 on Ubuntu 8.04.

For user natraj : your version of vpnclient is 4.8.00, you should try with version 4.8.01

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 05:27:12 +0000

My problem is because I am using 64-bit Ubuntu 8.04 hardy. Please refer to the webpage as follow:

http://www.lamnk.com/blog/domain/how-to-install-cisco-vpn-client-on-ubuntu-hardy-heron-804/

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 13:52:23 +0000

I successfully installed VPNclient before. When I reinstalled Ubuntu8.04, I failed to install it because this time I used a different sources.list. It seems to me that “linux-headers-2.6.24-19-generic” depending on the system is different from that I used before, such that I failed and got:

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-16-genericâ€™
scripts/Makefile.build:46: *** CFLAGS was changed in â€œ/home/patrick/software/vpnclient/Makefileâ€. Fix it to use EXTRA_CFLAGS. Stop.

Here I used a repository:
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sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
==> This command will add the Medibuntu repository to the package manager.

Now update package index (package list):
sudo apt-get update

A GPG-error on the Medibuntu’s repository will be reported. Do not worry, next command will fix it.
Medibuntu’s packages are signed with a private GPG security key. Add its public key part to the package system.
Run:
sudo apt-get -y –force-yes install medibuntu-keyring

Upgrade the system (if there are updates available):
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
============================================================

I believe when I didn’t use the medibuntu repository before I reinstalled Ubuntu8.04, I successfully installed vpnclient.

Any thoughts?

By: Smartuser

Smartuser — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:43:13 +0000

It looks like i’ve found one problem. I got the same error as above.
I had the thing in a folder called /root/Software Bla/vpnclient/
when I changed it to /root/swbla/vpnclient/ so without the spaces I worked OK!!!

Hopefully it will work for other as well.

By: m00tpoint

m00tpoint — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:15:15 +0000

I can’t get this working with kernel 2.6.24-19. linux-source and linux-generic-headers are installed via apt. Whether I point the install script at /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic or -modules, I get the following:

Making module
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic SUBDIRS=/home/dennis/scratch/vpnclient modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic’
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules’. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic’
make: *** [default] Error 2
Failed to make module “cisco_ipsec.ko”.

Any help for the n00b?