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network-manager package

  1. Bug #290285
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 290285

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 290285] Re: Grayed out "Connect" button when using WPA2 Entreprise+TLS authentication

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 02:25:49AM -0000, jasonwc wrote:
> I can confirm that encrypting the key fixes the problem. It doesn't
> matter whether the certificates/key are in PEM or DER format. If the key
> is encrypted, and the correct password is inputted, the connect button
> lights up and becomes usable.
>
> However, that doesn't fix the fact that network-manager is largely
> useless for 802.1x. With PEAPv0/MSCHAPv2 I was able to connect about 50%
> of the time. The rest of the time, the freeradius debug log showed that
> no attempt was even made to connect. With EAP-TLS, I see the same
> behavior, but even when the freeradius log shows a successful
> connection, network manager refuses to connect and doesn't output any
> errors!
>
> I am able to connect 100% of the time with either the Windows XP
> supplicant or Juniper's Odyssey Access client. This is clearly a
> network-manager issue. Hopefully, wpa-supplicant will be more reliable.
>

WPA-TLS is fixed in final 0.7 ... will take a bit until this lands as
a backport in intrepid though.

 - Alexander