network-manager lacks 802.1x ethernet support

[Vincenzo Ciancia]

Binary package hint: network-manager

I recently had to connect to a _cabled_ network with 802.1x authentication. Currently in ubuntu this functionality is provided by the package xsupplicant, however its setup is rather difficult. Moreover, this package is not installed by default, so that I actually could not connect to the network at all. Network-manager should support this kind of authentication also over cabled network by default.

[Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik)]

Thanks for your suggestion. You might want to suggest it upstream as well: http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package network-manager - 0.6.6~rc2-0ubuntu1

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network-manager (0.6.6~rc2-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * new upstream release 0.6.6 RC (LP: #197538); fixes various bugs:
    - LP: #40232, #41134, #75554, #82113, #107598, #118439, #132473
  * drop patches applied upstream
    - drop debian/patches/04-if_fix.patch
    - drop debian/patches/11-man_page_sh_name.patch
    - drop debian/patches/24pp_svn2578-gnome354565-fix-ethernet-link-detection-races.patch
    - drop debian/patches/24pp_svn2579-sleep-1-second-to-stabilize-if.patch
    - drop debian/patches/24pp_svn2591_Ensure-the-device-is-up-stage3.patch
    - drop debian/patches/24pp_svn2604_Add-HAL-based-rfkill-support.patch
    - drop debian/patches/24pp_svn2605-gnome354565-dont-up-notwired-interfaces.patch
    - drop debian/patches/24pp_svn2618_set-hardware-RF-to-enabled-if-no-killswitches.patch
    - drop debian/patches/24pp_svn2754-lp101857-endianess.patch
    - drop debian/patches/41c_ubuntu-fixup--get_mode_always_fails_typo_fix.patch
    - drop debian/patches/41e_fix_vpn_ftbfs_dont_disable_gnome_deprecated.patch
    - drop debian/patches/41m_unref_dbus_connection_on_shutdown.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
  * refresh patch because of renamed NetworkManagerDispatcher manpage
    - update debian/patches/06-dispatch_more_events.patch
  * drop driver specific tweaks assuming that wext should be fine for most
    drivers nowadays
    - drop debian/patches/13-rml-wpa-workarounds.patch
    - drop debian/patches/14-j-hostap-supplicant-driver.patch
    - drop debian/patches/43b_lp181232_save_kernel_driver_check.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
  * simply unbittrotted patches
    - update debian/patches/41k_20_sec_wireless_link_timeout.patch
    - update debian/patches/41t_nm_device_wireless_index_ctrl_sockets_by_run_count.patch
    - update debian/patches/41u_custom_timeout_for_some_wpa_ctrl_operations.patch
  * don't use run count for global ctrl socket anymore
    - update debian/patches/41t_nm_device_wireless_index_ctrl_sockets_by_run_count.patch
  * try to drop hidden AP tweaks (lets hope that scan_capa patch in 2.6.24
    fixes this)
    - drop debian/patches/42a_lp50214_gnome464215_fix_hidden.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
  * fix manpage path for NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher
    - update debian/network-manager.manpages

 -- Alexander Sack <email address hidden> Wed, 05 Mar 2008 19:06:19 +0100

[Nick Lowe (nick-int-r)]

Highly pedantic, but the tab in Lucid has the casing wrong, using "802.1x" and not "802.1X".