[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#586858: network-manager: Should auto-detect EAP authentication type

[Josh Triplett]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.8-1
Severity: wishlist

In talking with someone who uses wpa-supplicant directly to connect to a
WPA-EAP-protected network, they asked why NetworkManager needs to ask
for the EAP authentication type (TTLS, PEAP, etc), and why it needs to
ask for the inner authentication type.  Apparently, wpa-supplicant can
autodetect all of those from an EAP configuration packet.  It certainly
would make connecting to WPA networks easier if NetworkManager could
autodetect this as well (or let wpa-supplicant do so).

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112      add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                          1.2.24-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcp3-client                  3.1.3-2    DHCP client
ii  ifupdown                      0.6.10     high level tools to configure netw
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-1   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.24-1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.86-1     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                   1.4.5-2    LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.24.1-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26                   2.8.6-1    the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                157-1      GObject-based wrapper library for 
ii  libnl1                        1.1-5      library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib2                   0.8-1      network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1                   0.8-1      network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0         0.96-2     PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libuuid1                      2.17.2-3.1 Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23.1   Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                          157-1      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  wpasupplicant                 0.6.10-2   client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
ii  dnsmasq-base                  2.55-1     A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP
ii  iptables                      1.4.8-2    administration tools for packet fi
pn  modemmanager                  <none>     (no description available)
ii  network-manager-gnome         0.8-1      network management framework (GNOM
ii  policykit-1                   0.96-2     framework for managing administrat
pn  ppp                           <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd                 <none>     (no description available)

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