This guide shows how to use the new WSU PEAP wireless deployment with Fedora 8. This guide assumes you are using Network Manager which is installed by default. If you have chosen to use a different window manager than is default you may need to take steps to launch Network manager, or you may follow the manual instructions.

Fedora doesn't appear to have a package for the CA certificates, so this guide is using the certificate bundled with the Pidgin instant messenger client. Please verify that Pidgin is installed before continuing.

Go to your menu bar and click on the airport menu item producing this menu, select "WSU Wireless".

This should result in it asking for your credentials (same as my.wsu.edu).

Which results in this (Don't click accept yet -- click show details for the pane after this):

This page has been moved to http://lug.wsu.edu/wireless.  Please inform the webmaster of the linking site.

Thank you.

-webmaster

Setting your clock

Before beginning, make sure that your clock is current. This can be done either through GNOME/KDE or with the `date` command. An out of date clock will fail to validate the certificate.

Installing the prerequisite packages.

Most distributions come with the prerequisite packages. Verify that wpa_supplicant is installed. (Different distributions may have slightly different names for the package.)

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