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 the OSUWireless network, see:
The OSU Open Source club has a write-up on connecting to OSUWireless in Ubuntu as well.
It has been observed that OSUWireless will work with the Ubuntu on Dell's Mini-9 netbook. All you have to do is copy this Security Certificate over from Geotrust and set the wireless adapter to the same settings that Windows uses.
An older 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: 09-29-2009
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