Wireless Troubleshooting

How to configure wireless

midd_unplugged

Windows XP

• Right-Click on the wireless connection icon on the taskbar

Usually on the bottom right of the screen

• Select view available netowrks
• Select midd_unplugged
• Click on connect anyway when the security error comes up

Some users may have a program other than the Windows XP's built in wifi utility. In such a case, you can either point the program towards midd_unplugged or disable the program so that you may use the windows wifi utility.

Mac OS X

• Click on the airport icon in the menu
• Select midd_unplugged

Ubuntu 8.04

• Click the Network Manager icon.
• From the drop-down menu, click midd_unplugged. Mileage may vary if network strength indicator is less than 50%.

midd_secure

Windows XP

Although possible, configuring midd_secure to work on an Windows XP machine using a wifi manager other that the Windows XP wifi utility is usually difficult pain. For this reason alone, I recommend that any third party wifi utility be disabled.

Mac OS X - Tiger

• Click on the airprot icon.
• Select midd_secure.
• Enter username and password.
• Do not check the "Remember my password in my keychain" box.
• Hit OK.

"Fixing" WPA error

• Go to network connect

You can do this by clicking on the airport icon on the MacOS X menu and selecting "Open Internet Connect..."

• Go to the the "802.1X" tab.
• On the configuration option, use the drop-down menu to select "Edit Configurations..."
• Remove all previously saved connection settings then hit "OK"
• Close the Internet Connect application.

• Go to the "Utilities" folder in the "Applications" folder

While in finder you may use, apple-shift-U or go->Utilities, to navigate to the utilities folder

• Fire up "Keychain Access"
• Look for an "oncila.middlebury.edu" certificate and delete it
• Delete anything that says "midd_secure" or "WPA Midd_secure" on it. "Basically anything that you removed in the earlier step."
• Close the Keychain Access application.

• Click on the airport icon on the menu.
• Select midd_secure.
• Enter username and password.
• Do not check the "Remember my password in my keychain" box.
• Hit OK

You should now be OK.

Much thanx to Petar

Windows Vista

Setting it up as a WPA2 Enterprise network has been fairly successful but I have no idea in what version of Vista this works/does not work. You should be able to do so by setting up a network manually and editing the settings of that manually set up network.

Will follow with a how-to as soon as I have a vista machine to work on...or someone do the wiki thing...