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.

Hi all:

I've finally managed to get the Asus EEE PC's Xandros OS to work on the wsunexus (old) wireless network using the pptp vpn. Here's how:

For those EEE PC owners out there, you can now get on the net with wireless on campus! Unfortunately, its not trivial; the EEE PC is missing support for "enterprise wireless" in many ways. Fear not, through this howto we'll address the show-stopping shortcomings and get it working!

First off, we need to get some additional software repositories configured so we can pull in additional or updated software packages.

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 guide shows how to use the new WSU PEAP wireless deployment with Ubuntu 7.10/8.04/9.04 and should work with the various derivatives such as Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Edubuntu.