diff --git a/wicd/networking.py b/wicd/networking.py
index 609e50a..ef4208e 100644
--- a/wicd/networking.py
+++ b/wicd/networking.py
@@ -645,6 +645,16 @@ class Wireless(Controller):
         """
         return self.wiface.GetOperationalMode(iwconfig)
 
+    def GetAvailableAuthMethods(self, iwlistauth):
+        """ Get the available authentication methods for the interface. 
+        
+        Returns:
+        The available authentication methods of the interface as a string, or
+        None if the auth methods can't be found.
+        
+        """
+        return self.wiface.GetAvailableAuthMethods(iwlistauth)
+
     def GetIwconfig(self):
         """ Get the out of iwconfig. """
         return self.wiface.GetIwconfig()
diff --git a/wicd/wicd-daemon.py b/wicd/wicd-daemon.py
index 33958c3..0f4704a 100644
--- a/wicd/wicd-daemon.py
+++ b/wicd/wicd-daemon.py
@@ -1003,7 +1003,12 @@ class WirelessDaemon(dbus.service.Object):
     @dbus.service.method('org.wicd.daemon.wireless')
     def GetOperationalMode(self, iwconfig):
         """ Returns the operational mode for the iwconfig parameter """
-        return misc.to_unicode(self.wifi.GetOperationalMode())
+        return misc.to_unicode(self.wifi.GetOperationalMode(iwconfig))
+
+    @dbus.service.method('org.wicd.daemon.wireless')
+    def GetAvailableAuthMethods(self, iwlistauth):
+        """ Returns the operational mode for the iwlistauth parameter """
+        return misc.to_unicode(self.wifi.GetAvailableAuthMethods(iwlistauth))
 
     @dbus.service.method('org.wicd.daemon.wireless')
     def CreateAdHocNetwork(self, essid, channel, ip, enctype, key, encused,
diff --git a/wicd/wnettools.py b/wicd/wnettools.py
index 8a7f3f0..3bf22d0 100644
--- a/wicd/wnettools.py
+++ b/wicd/wnettools.py
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ ip_pattern = re.compile(r'inet [Aa]d?dr[^.]*:([^.]*\.[^.]*\.[^.]*\.[0-9]*)',re.S
 bssid_pattern = re.compile('.*Access Point: (([0-9A-Z]{2}:){5}[0-9A-Z]{2})', __re_mode)
 bitrate_pattern = re.compile('.*Bit Rate=(.*?)s', __re_mode)
 opmode_pattern = re.compile('.*Mode:(.*?) ', __re_mode)
+authmethods_pattern = re.compile('.*Authentication capabilities :\n(.*?)Current', __re_mode)
 
 # Regular expressions for wpa_cli output
 auth_pattern = re.compile('.*wpa_state=(.*?)\n', __re_mode)
@@ -1211,6 +1212,18 @@ class BaseWirelessInterface(BaseInterface):
         opmode = misc.RunRegex(opmode_pattern, output)
         return opmode
 
+    def GetAvailableAuthMethods(self, iwlistauth=None):
+        """ Get the MAC address for the interface. """
+        if not iwlistauth:
+            cmd = 'iwlist ' + self.iface + ' auth'
+            if self.verbose: print cmd
+            output = misc.Run(cmd)
+        else:
+            output = iwlistauth
+            
+        authm = misc.RunRegex(authmethods_pattern, output).replace(' ', '').replace('\t', '').replace('\n', '; ')[:-2]
+        return authm
+
     def _get_link_quality(self, output):
         """ Parse out the link quality from iwlist scan or iwconfig output. """
         try: