Re: EAP-FAST support and hidden SSIDs

[Robert Love <rml novell com>]

On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 13:38 +1100, Mark Krischer wrote:

> is there any plan to add EAP-FAST support to NetworkManager?  i have
> it working with wpa_supplicant, but NetworkManager doesn't seem to
> support the complete range that wpa_supplicant does.

Well, I thought I added everything, but the myriad EAP options is hard
to grok.

If you send us your wpa_supplicant config for EAP-FAST, we can look at
adding it.

> also, just a thought on hidden SSIDs.  if the user configures
> NetworkManager with some SSIDs they are looking for, NetworkManager
> could/should probe explicitly for those as part of it's scanning
> process. 

Actually, we do.  When you scan, the hidden ESSID's show up -- just not
with a name attached.  NM will map the MAC address from the scan to the
name, if you have successfully connected in the past.

This requires that your card & driver return hidden ESSID's in a scan,
however.  Most do.  Prism does not.  Orinoco may not?

	Robert Love