802.1x for wired networks

Sam Leffler sam at freebsd.org
Wed Apr 9 16:11:05 UTC 2008


Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 03:05:31PM +0200, Guido van Rooij wrote:
>> What is the best way to be able to have a FreeBSD system connect
>> via 802.1x to a wired network?  Wap_supplicant seems to insist on
>> calling 80211 ioctl's and thus fails.
>>
>> I found the open1x project, but did not find it in the ports tree.
>> This suggests that perhaps there is a native solution after all, yet
>> I can't seem to find it.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
> 
> Sam just comitted support to /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant in head to set the
> driver to bsd or wired based on the device media type.
> 
> -- Brooks

Right; you need to specify -Dwired to get the "wired driver".  Note I 
have no way of testing wired supplicant operation so if it works I'd 
like to hear about it.

	Sam



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