using NetworkManager to connect with 802.1X over a wired connection



Hi all,

I'm quite desperate for help, I've posted threads on lots of forums with
requests for help, but so far nobody has been able to help me. Please
read the following: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=411843

In short, I've got no luck with wpa_supplicant if I want to connect to
my university's network on Ubuntu 7.04, and nobody has been able to help
me (on Windows it works fine). I'm getting sick and tired of
wpa_supplicant's user-unfriendliness, and now that 0.6.5 is released I
want to try to connect with NetworkManager, since I assume that 0.6.5
has added support for 802.1X with EAP-TTLS/PAP according to comments -
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=359369#c13 - on Bugzilla. I
know that NM uses wpa_supplicant as it's backend, but possibly the way
NM will handle it will work for me.

I haven't got NM 0.6.5 installed yet, because I don't want to compile
from source. As soon as it's in the Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu's codename for
the next release) repositories I will install it, but I think I still
have a problem.

Currently, if you use 0.6.4 and you are connected through a wired
connection, and you click the NM applet, it lists two options: "Wired
Network" and "Manual configuration". Assuming this has not changed in NM
0.6.5, there is no way for me to configure NM to connect to a network
with 802.1X and EAP-TTLS/PAP over a wired connection, is there?

Is there any way to solve this? Or, at least, can anyone tell me why
wpa_supplicant can't connect to the network, what I am doing wrong? I'd
really appreciate any help, because having to use Windows XP because I
can't access the network under Ubuntu sucks.

Greetings and thanks in advance for any help,
Alexander van Loon

P.S.: why is there no NEWS file -
http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/NetworkManager/tags/NETWORKMANAGER_0_6_5_RELEASE/NEWS?revision=2558&view=markup - for the 0.6.5 release?




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