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+ and should work with the various derivatives such as Kubuntu.

Setting your clock

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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 An out of date clock will fail to validate the certificate.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.

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

Will they ever stop changing? The "recommended" way to utilize udev is now via rules in /etc/udev/rules.d. Simply create a file in that directory called something like 99-local.rules or just add to it if it already exists. Place this line in that file:

BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="lp[0-9]*", RUN+="/usr/local/bin/runcups"

and save the first script listed below as /usr/local/bin/runcups. Feel free to edit it as you please; it's a quite simple script.

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Warning, the hotplug package is now deprecated. You should migrate custom setups to udev soon. Some good urls for help with this are:

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/udev.8.html http://www.skepticats.com/linlog/content/udevautorun/

Instead of writing hotplug rules and scripts, the way to get CUPS to run only when a printer is plugged in is to place this script in /etc/dev.d/usb_device/printer.dev Don't forget to edit it to match the way your distribution handles services.

#!/bin/bash
#
# /etc/dev.d/usb_device/printer.dev
# Starts cups so that the newly inserted printer can be used.

if [ "${ACTION}" = "add" ]
then
        if [ "`ls /dev/usb/lp* 2>/dev/null`" != "" ]
        then
                if [ "`/etc/init.d/cupsd status | grep started`" == "" ]
                then
                        /etc/init.d/cupsd start &
                fi
        fi

else
        if [ "`ls /dev/usb/lp* 2>/dev/null`" == "" ]
        then
                if [ "`/etc/init.d/cupsd status | grep stopped`" == "" ]
                then
                        /etc/init.d/cupsd stop &
                fi
        fi
fi

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