Re: EAP-FAST support and hidden SSIDs

[Joseph Harnish <bigjoe1008 gmail com>]

>From attempting to get EAP-FAST going myself I was told on the
WPA_supplicant mailing list that you need to patch openssl or something
along those lines.  In the WPA_supplicant tarball there is a patch
included to implement it.  

--Joe

On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 09:09 -0500, Robert Love wrote:
> 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
> 
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