FC4 Mouse weirdness with Cisco VPN

[Rahul Sundaram]

Andrew Mather wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I have a machine running FC4 with the latest updates (as of yesterday
>morning), although this problem has been happening ever since the
>machine was installed (clean install after full format incl /home).  
>I am using KDE as my window manager.
>
>The machine behaves quite normally and I can use the internet, local
>applications, terminal windows etc, just as you might expect for as
>long as I like with no problem.
>
>However whenever I bring up my VPN to work, which uses the Cicso VPN
>client, it kills the mouse within a few seconds.  The cursor moves
>over to the left hand side of the screen and won't come out.  Killing
>the VPN does not restore function, I have to restart X
>
>The VPN concentrator enforces a policy which cuts off local LAN access
>while the VPN is up.  This is annoying, but done for the "right
>reasons".
>  
>
Is this Cisco client the proprietary one or vpnc from Fedora Extras?. 
Can you try vpnc to see if this works better?

#yum install vpnc

regards
Rahul