Feature changed by: gekker Feature #303751, revision 8 Title: Support 802.1X Authentication on Wired Networks - openSUSE-11.1: New + openSUSE-11.1: Duplicate of #301902 Priority Requester: Desirable - SLED-11: New + SLED-11: Duplicate of #301902 Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: prusnak@novell.com Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: SUSE Linux does not support 802.1X authentication on Wired Networks. That means that users which need this feature have to install and configure it manually. What's even worse, users in authenticated environment cannot install SUSE from network. This feature consists of 3 tasks: 1) add suport to sysconfig/netcontrol (e.g. by calling wpa_supplicant - D wired -i eth0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_wired.conf in network scripts) 2) add support to NetworkManager (and its frontends - NetworkManager-gnome and NetworkManager-kde) 3) add configuration dialogs to YaST (during the installation and outside the installation - on running system) PS: Fedora Rawhide (equivalent of openSUSE Factory) already has working implementation in NetworkManager-gnome. I do not know about other tasks. Discussion: #1: snwint@novell.com (2008-04-30 11:01:48) We already run wpa_suplicant during installation. Could you please explain the difference to your proposal and what exactly needs to be changed? #2: prusnak@novell.com (2008-04-30 11:23:26) (reply to #1) I'm talking about 802.1x authentication on wired networks (Ethernet). I'm not able to enter my credentials during install phase and even worse I cannot enter them in installed system either and I have to create wpa_supplicant with credentials by hand. #3: snwint@novell.com (2008-04-30 12:00:41) (reply to #2) And what needs to be changed to the present wpa_supplicant call? #5: prusnak@novell.com (2008-04-30 13:06:57) (reply to #3) Probably nothing, but installation lacks configuration of user credentials and there seem to be no way to input them in installed system too (eg. using YaST). #4: tambet@novell.com (2008-04-30 13:22:45) NetworkManager does support wired 802.1x authentication (SLED10-SP2 and opensuse 11.0 beta1) and the feature request is already in FATE: 301902. -- SUSE Feature Tool: http://partnerfate.suse.de/?rm=feature_show&id=303751