Bug 355600

Summary:	autodetect wifi security authentication method
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Nick Shaforostoff <shafff>
Component:	Networking in general	Assignee:	Lukáš Tinkl <lukas>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	jgrulich
Priority:	NOR	Flags:	shafff: Usability+
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Nick Shaforostoff 2015-11-19 20:16:56 UTC

When i connect to my office wifi using osx or android they automatically detect wifi security type: WPA2 Enterprise, authentication PEAP, inner auth MSCHAPv2 and propose me to enter login and password, but when i connect to the same network using plasma-nm it does't suggest this and i have to guess.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
i would like plasma-nm to auto detect auth method so that i only would need to provide login and password and not bother with auth method details

Comment 1 Jan Grulich 2015-11-20 07:45:14 UTC

We already have this in the applet, you can see security type under the access point name and you just need to put there the password. We should probably do the same in the editor, just it's not going to be easy.

Comment 2 Nick Shaforostoff 2015-11-20 10:49:51 UTC

"you just need to put there the password" - for the most popular case of wpa2 personal yes. but i have never seen it suggesting me to enter both login and password for my case of wpa2 enterprise peap

Comment 3 Jan Grulich 2016-01-04 13:02:47 UTC

I added auto-detection of wireless security also to the editor and set PEAP authentication as default for WPA/WPA2 Enterprise which is all we can do about that right now, because there is no way how to know what authentication is used by an AP using WPA/WPA2 Enterprise.

Comment 4 Ben Cooksley 2024-12-23 18:23:36 UTC

Bulk transfer as requested in T17796