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

[joseph beasley]

Sounds like WPA enterprise.  He'll need to get the Certificate from UTD.  

 

----- Original Message ----
From: Steve Baker <steve at sjbaker.org>
To: NTLUG Discussion List <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 1:52:27 PM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Linux + Wireless on the UTD campus.

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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