802.1x for wired networks

Brooks Davis brooks at freebsd.org
Wed Apr 9 14:33:45 UTC 2008


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
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