@notgeorge:
Just submitted a bug request + suggested workaround & fix that seems to address the issue with the wireless interface defaulting to OPEN instead of setting WPA2 properly.
https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/3562
Hasn't completely gotten 802.1x working, but it's probably a step in the right direction and at least I can get WPA2 with PSK to work properly.
Thank you very much for your feedback. This issue was that serious for me that I have decided to open a new thread for it:
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=72483.0
Within this thread ermal has fixed the problem some 2.1.1-PRERELEASE snapshots ago. And 802.1x authentication is still working as expected with the latest 2.1.1 snapshot (i386 nanobsd) from 2014-03-26. Therefore I am regarding this issue as solved :)
Regards,
Peter
EDIT: I have just done some quick search on github. I am not very experienced with github but I strongly suppose, this commit of ermal has solved the 802.1x issue:
https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense/commit/315bdf65a12337f150bde11d95824528d90068be