[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux + Wireless on the UTD campus.

[Stuart Johnston]

I don't know if it is current but perhaps this will help:

http://fslutd.org/w/Campus_wireless

Steve Baker wrote:
> My son is off to college (doing the summer bridge program at UT Dallas).
> 
> The residences there only have WiFi - no cabled Internet at all.
> 
> We have his SONY VAIO (SuSE 10.3) working with our WiFi network here at 
> home using YAST2 to set everything up and KInternet to set it up and 
> pass WEP keys and such.
> 
> But UTD's wireless setup is different - and I can't figure out how.  He 
> can boot the laptop into Windows, connect up and surf the web just 
> fine.  He's been given three pieces of information: A "NetID" which 
> contains his initials and some numbers, so it must be unique to him, a 
> "Password" and a "Logon Domain" that is the same for everyone.
> 
> The trouble is that the Linux tools only seem to be talking about a 
> single "encryption key" and none of those three strings seems to fit the 
> bill.  KInternet shows the network on a WiFi scan - and when I click on 
> it, it says "CONNECTED" - but it clearly isn't because I haven't entered 
> any passwords or anything yet - and of course, the connection doesn't 
> actually work.
> 
> When I dig around in his Windows setup, I think it's saying that the 
> connection is "WEP, Open, autokey" with "Protected EAP" and "Password 
> EAP-MSCHAP v2"...all of which is complete gobbledygook to me!
> 
> Any ideas what I should be setting on the Linux side to get it to talk?  
> (Remember that I already got WEP working here on our home WiFi network 
> so the drivers are all working and DHCP and all of that stuff is OK).
> 
> TIA - Steve.
> 
> 
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