Re: Status of NM with LEAP authentication feature.

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 08:50 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 01:53 -0300, Thiago Bauermann wrote:
> > 2006/10/13, Thiago Bauermann <thiago bauermann gmail com>:
> >         2006/10/12, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>:
> >                 On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 16:10 -0500, Aaron Konstam
> >                 wrote:
> >                 > Up to now I have been using NM with LEAP
> >                 authentication on my FC5
> >                 > machine. To do this I had to download the source
> >                 from the CVS repository 
> >                 > and compile. 
> >                 > Will this version of NM be ever be ready as an RPM?
> >                 In FC6 maybe?
> >                 Somebody could backport the patch... hint
> >                 hint :)  It's pretty
> >                 self-contained.
> >         I have just downloaded the source tarball for NM 0.6.4 and
> >         applied the LEAP patch to it.
> >         Amasingly enough, the only reject is in src/Makefile.am, which
> >         is trivial to fix.
> >         NM compiled and ran correctly. Unfortunately, I don't have a
> >         LEAP network around right now, 
> >         so I can't confirm that it connects to it, but I think it
> >         would. At least NM does all the steps it should and sends
> >         wpa_supplicant the correct config for a LEAP network...
> > 
> > Ok,  just to confirm: the LEAP patch works without problems on 0.6.x
> > versions of NM (I'm using it right now on NM 0.6.3! :-) ). Attached is
> > a patch which applies cleanly to 0.6.x .
> > -- 
> > 
> > []'s
> > Thiago Jung Bauermann 
> > _______________________________________________
> I hate to be the only "idiot" on the list. I downloaded the
> NetworkManager source from the CVS database close to a month ago. I
> compiled it and installed the compiled code. This version of NM works in
> out universities wireless system that uses LEAP authentication. So why
> are we still patching to get this capability.

If you downloaded from HEAD, then the LEAP patch was applied in July.
For the STABLE branch, the LEAP patch has not been applied.
Distributions are using the STABLE branch, because, of course, it's
stable.

Dan