There's really nothing to it, for me. I click the NetworkManager icon, and select the ubcsecure AP; it asks me to authenticate (WPA2 Enterprise, I think); I enter my Interchange username as Identity and password as, well, Password, and away it goes. (Well, of course I save the identity information in the GNOME keyring so I don't have to type it in every time…)
It could, of course, be a driver issue. My laptop has an Intel PRO/Wireless chipset, and Intel are pretty good about driver support (there's a firmware blob, but the driver itself is open). If you use in-kernel drivers and compile your own kernel (or your distribution vendor of choice botched it up), you may have to ensure that the correct encryption options are enabled; I suspect the crucial one is TKIP (menuconfig -> Networking -> IEEE 802.11i TKIP encryption or CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_TKIP=y). If you use a third-party driver package, make sure it supports the necessary encryption.
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Re: School network
Date: 2007-03-08 10:13 pm (UTC)It could, of course, be a driver issue. My laptop has an Intel PRO/Wireless chipset, and Intel are pretty good about driver support (there's a firmware blob, but the driver itself is open). If you use in-kernel drivers and compile your own kernel (or your distribution vendor of choice botched it up), you may have to ensure that the correct encryption options are enabled; I suspect the crucial one is TKIP ( or CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_TKIP=y). If you use a third-party driver package, make sure it supports the necessary encryption.