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Hello,

My office place is moving to a more secure network and they require even wired ports to be authenticated by 802.1x. The IT supports only Windows and they have configured my machine on Windows appropriately. Linux--no support. Googling reports back results only for wireless clients.

I am using Mageia 2 (x64), KDE 4.8 . How do I go about setting this up?

Thanks,
Azeem

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Can you please give more details on the setup, like what authentication mechanism is used and so on?
Otherwise, should be possible, just take a look at f.ex. How to configure wired 802.1X for Linux with Network Manager

Hi,
Thanks for replying. From the Android smartphone setup the details are as follows:

Authentication: PEAP
Anonymous Identity: None
Phase 2 Authentication: MSCHAPV2
No CA certificate
No User Certificate

Actually, another colleague was able to setup on his Debian machine using Network Manager and he asked me to do the same. But the instructions for Debian are not matching. Moreover, after installing knetworkmanager, I clicked on the icon and selected the Configure option. However, no option to enable 802.1x is visible anywhere. Only the typical settings you see when you use drakconnect are available in the settings.

Thanks.

doktor5000 wrote:Can you please give more details on the setup, like what authentication mechanism is used and so on?
Otherwise, should be possible, just take a look at f.ex. How to configure wired 802.1X for Linux with Network Manager

Well, you should not use knetworkmanager, but networkmanager directly, this comes with the package networkmanager-applet.
But before that, use drakconnect to re-configure your wired connection, but changing nothing, until the last "summary" step, where you make sure that "Allow interface to be controlled by Network Manager" is enabled, and then try to configure it using networkmanager.

Thank you very much. It worked beautifully.

I uninstalled knetworkmanager.
Ran nm-applet from the command line and configured the eth0 interface for 802.1x

Thanks again.

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