Connecting to SPSU wireless in Ubuntu with wicd
I’ve noticed from browsing forums and from my own personal experience, connecting to any WPA encrypted wireless network in Ubuntu is less than stable. In my own experience, my connection stops every 10 or 15 minutes.
To solve this problem, I recently switched to Wicd and now I get a nice stable connection on my home wireless. But here at Southern Poly, I had some trouble connecting to the wireless network. After some googling, I found this script: http://wicd.net/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=200. What I’m follows is a step by step HOWTO for connecting to Southern Polytechnic State University’s wireless network in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.
- Add the wicd package
sudo apt-get install wicdIt’s going to want to remove network-manager, but don’t panic, you won’t miss it. After the install, the gnome panel is going to complain about network manager not working, but this is also normal.
- Download this template (eap-ttls) to your desktop and move it to your /etc/wicd/encryption/templates folder.
sudo mv ~/Desktop/eap-ttls /etc/wicd/encryption/templates - Now add the template to wicd’s active list
sudo echo eap-ttls >> /etc/wicd/encryption/templates/active - Start wicd.In the menus, click “Applications”->”Internet”->”Wicd Network Manager”
- Find “hornet” in the network list.
- Click Properties.
- Leave all of the choice boxes unclicked except for Use Encryption.
- In the drop down box, choose EAP-TTLS
- Under Identity, type your user name (the part of your school email address that comes before @spsu.edu)
- Under Password, type your password. The same one you use for your school email.Your property window should look like this, now.
- Click Ok.
- Now click Connect and you should be good to go.
