wpa_supplicant support for ifup

[Keith Sharp]

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 12:26 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Harald Hoyer (harald at redhat.com) said: 
> > What do you think about the attached patch to ifup-wireless? Works for me :)
> 
> This should really be done in NM.

I may have the wrong end of the stick, but what about the increasingly
common situation where wired access to Ethernet switches is beings
controlled by 802.1x authentication?  I understand that NM will handle
the laptop/workstation with GUI case, but what about servers?  And how
does NM handle static IP addresses?

Keith.