Re: Timeschedule of 0.7 release and possible sponsoring

[dragoran <drago01 gmail com>]

Jeroen van de Nieuwenhof wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm running Ubuntu Linux on my laptop and i use networkmanager to manage
> my network connections. I work and study on two different universities
> that both use some wireless setup that i can't connect to with
> NetworkManager. I hear all kind of things about the 0.7 release being
> able to do that. The fist question is: is this try for the networks at
> these universities?
>
> For the first university i use this wpasupplicant script to connect to
> the network:
>
> network={
> 	ssid="university"
> 	scan_ssid=1
> 	key_mgmt=IEEE8021X
> 	eap=PEAP
> 	phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
> 	identity="account university tld"
> 	password="password"
> }
>
> The second university uses the SecureW2 client for Windows computers to
> connect to the network see (http://www.securew2.org/). I haven't tried
> it yet, but it seems like there is a way of connecting with Linux using
> wpasupplicant also. Another institute uses this setup for that (instead
> of SecureW2 on Windows):
>
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> eapol_version=1
>
> network={
>         ssid="uva"
>         scan_ssid=1
>         key_mgmt=IEEE8021X
>         eap=TTLS
>         anonymous_identity="anonymous uva nl"
>         phase2="auth=PAP"
>         identity="studentennummer uva nl"
>         password="geheim"
>         ca_cert="/etc/1x/certs/SURFnet-PCA-Root-CA.pem"
> }
>
> The second question i have is: When will this 0.7 release be ready?
>
> And the third is: Is it possible to speed up the development of 0.7 (or
> the release that handles my network connections stated above) by making
> a donation or paying some bounty for this? I have some money available
> for this.
>   

both should work fine with 0.6.5