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Background

I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 server (on a laptop, for development) and am trying to get my wifi configured to work with an WPA-EAP network.

• To enable Wifi I followed the guide Wifi on Ubuntu 18 server




• I looked at the Netplan Examples (none with WPA-EAP )




• I've read the Netplan Full Documentation.

I've got netplan to work with an an open network, even with a password protected network, but haven't been able to get it to work with WPA-EAP where both an identity and password are required.

Attempted Configuration

I've tried this in my /etc/netplan/config.yaml file:

network:
 wifis:
 wlp1s0:
 dhcp4: yes
 access-points:
 "My-Enterprise-Network":
 auth:
 key-management: eap
 identity: johndoe1
 password: pass1234

But when I run netplan apply I get:

Error in network definition /etc/netplan/config.yaml: unknown key auth

From the Documentation

From the online netplan documentation:

 The ``auth`` block supports the following properties:

 ``key-management`` (scalar)
 : The supported key management modes are ``none`` (no key management);
 ``psk`` (WPA with pre-shared key, common for home wifi); ``eap`` (WPA
 with EAP, common for enterprise wifi); and ``802.1x`` (used primarily
 for wired Ethernet connections).

 ``password`` (scalar)
 : The password string for EAP, or the pre-shared key for WPA-PSK.

 The following properties can be used if ``key-management`` is ``eap``
 or ``802.1x``:

 ``method`` (scalar)
 : The EAP method to use. The supported EAP methods are ``tls`` (TLS),
 ``peap`` (Protected EAP), and ``ttls`` (Tunneled TLS).

 ``identity`` (scalar)
 : The identity to use for EAP.

From man netplan

access-points (mapping)
 This provides pre-configured connections to NetworkManager. 
 Note that users can of course select other access points/SSIDs. 
 The keys of the mapping are the SSIDs, and the values are mappings
 with the following supported properties:

 password (scalar)
 Enable WPA2 authentication and set the passphrase for it. 
 If not given, the network is assumed to be open. 
 **Other authentication modes are not currently supported.**

Note the last line: Other authentication modes are not currently supported.

Questions

1. What's the right way to use netplan with WPA-EAP?


2. Does Ubuntu 18.04 ship with an outdated version of netplan? ( netplan --version is not supported ) Hence perhaps why the online documentation has options that the man version does not?


3. If so, can I upgrade netplan to a more cutting edge release?


4. Or does netplan need to be used with something like a wpa_supplicant.conf to specify additional parameters?