Add FT-EAP to the Network Manager

[Serejka Homyakov]

Hi!

I'm using Network Manager 1.2.6-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 to connect to the WPA2-Enterprise SSID with PEAP-MSCHAPv2. I'm able to connect to it using WPA2-EAP ok, but as I know, Network Manager uses wpa_supplicant supporting FT-EAP, but this option is not available in the Network Manager.

FT stands for the 802.11r Fast Transition, which allows client to be "pre-authenticated" to the AP it targets to move to, thus facilitating inter-AP transition time (i.e. downtime) to be much lower in WPA2-Enterprise networks. This functionality is critical in the modern 802.11 networks.

Please, add this support to the Network Manager.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Oded Arbel (oded-geek)]

That would be a good feature to add, I'd like to see this support as well.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The request has been made upstream on https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747802 but there has be no activity there since it was reported