Bug 268271

Summary: Make WPA2 access to WLAN possible during installation.
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3 Reporter: Casual J. Programmer <casualprogrammer>
Component: YaST2Assignee: Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Status: RESOLVED NORESPONSE QA Contact: Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity: Enhancement    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Alpha 3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: x86   
OS: openSUSE 10.3   
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Description Casual J. Programmer 2007-04-26 05:50:19 UTC 
When setting up openSuSE10.3 any alpha, during configuration of the network all cards are detected, but WPA2 access to WLAN is not configurable.

As many people today rely on WLAN as their only means of network access and WPA2 is developing into the de facto standard ( from my desk alone I can see some 30 networks with quite a few of them being WPA2 encrypted )

The hardware is a FSC Amilo Si1520 with Intel ipw3945 WLAN
Comment 1 Lukas Ocilka 2007-05-03 11:44:59 UTC 
I'm afraid this is rather for Linuxrc maintainer.
Comment 2 Steffen Winterfeldt 2007-05-03 12:06:38 UTC 
Joe, what needs to be done for wpa2 setup?
Comment 3 Joachim Gleissner 2007-05-03 16:44:02 UTC 
Nothing special. wpa_supplicant can usually automatically decide which WPA protocol (WPA or RSN, aka WPA2) is to be used. What we currently do not support is WPA-EAP, maybe this is actually meant here. That makes the setup process much more complex, depending on the EAP method it may even require that the user has to provide certificate files via some media, so this is not trivial to implement and needs an official feature request therefore IMHO. The benefit of this is doubtful, as WPA-EAP is most probably only used inside enterprise environments, I don't think admins will strain themselves by installing machines via slow wireless links.
Comment 4 Casual J. Programmer 2007-05-03 21:01:09 UTC 
OK, what is meant:

When doing a clean install from DVD, setting up internet access will pick one of the detected cards for access to the internet ( in my case the LAN and the WLAN ) when deciding on WLAN you can pick from no security, WEP or WPA NOT WPA2, because I know that wpa_supplicant can do it, I ask that this ability is put to use in the installation process. Just reading what is asked for, rather tan guessing  ("maybe this is actually meant here") sometimes is really helpful.

I am talking of WPA2 personal with CCMP.
Comment 5 Casual J. Programmer 2009-01-14 19:39:35 UTC 
OK lads, lack of interest I assume, closing as noresponse.