I have NM working nicely for our home networks, thanks to all involved.
Now, I am trying to set up a laptop running ubuntu for easy use by my
daughter who is at Edinburgh (UK) University. (She is reading
Comparative Religion and not Computer Science!) Unfortunately I am not
anywhere near Edinburgh so I want to get as close to the solution as
possible, by diligent research, before I get to see the network. Anyway
I hate trial&error methods - they take far too much time! She will
require, therefore, four different networks: home wireless, uni wired
(not allowed to use wireless in halls), uni wireless, & wireless
hotspots. EUCS website suggests that a wpa-supplicant file for their
network should look something like this:
QUOTE
ap_scan=2
network={
ssid="central-wpa"
auth_alg=OPEN
key_mgmt=WPA_EAP
proto=WPA
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
eap=PEAP
identity="username"
password="password"
phase1="peapver=0"
phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
eapol_flags=3
UNQUOTE
Apart from the typo (I think it should be WPA-EAP not WPA_EAP), this
looks as if it requires two-phase
authentication which, from reading all the stuff I can find here and in
ubuntu etc, looks as if it may not be supported by NM.
1. Am I correct in concluding that this mode of wpa-supplicant is not
supported by NM?
2. Am I correct in concluding that manual configuration of
wpa-supplicant.conf is ignored by NM?
3. If so, is it possible to use NM in conjunction with an ifup/down
script fired from a suitable applet?
4. Would it be a good idea/possible to have an option in NM to use a
custom script for this type of situation?
Very grateful for any comments and/or ideas ...
Charles Whittington
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