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OSU Wireless-Network: Setup for Linux



The Office of Information Technology's Help Desk does not support Linux. However, a machine running Linux operating system with an open source client that supports the following should be able to connect to OSUWireless-Network:

  • Encryption: WPA Radius with TKIP key exchange
  • Authentication: 802.1x with PEAP and MSCHAPv2
  • SSID: osuwireless

For an example of a Linux configuration for OSU Wireless-Network, click here.

For more information on logging onto OSUWireless-Network, see the following link:


Linux configuration example:
NOTE: The following configuration may not work exactly as shown for all flavors of Linux and all wireless drivers. Shown is a configuration for the Debian package "WPA Supplicant".

********Start
## wpa_supplicant.conf
## After installing wpa_supplicant, use this config file to connect to the
osuwireless network.
## This config was written for the ipw2200 card driver and could possibly
vary slightly for other cards.

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1
fast_reauth=1

# Your home network. Encryption here is WPA-Personal aka WPA-PSK.
network={
ssid="yourssid"
priority=0
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
psk="your-pre-shared key" }

# EAP-PEAP/MSCHAPv2 configuration for RADIUS servers that use the old
peaplabel
# (e.g., osuwireless)
network={
ssid="osuwireless"
scan_ssid=1
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
eap=PEAP
identity="your-username"   (e.g. lastname.#w)
password="your-password"
phase1="peaplabel=0"
phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
priority=1 }
**********end


Current Record: 2672

Create Date: 08-24-2005
Last Reviewed: 04-14-2008


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