Connect to the AUP wireless (wifi) network: Other operating systems

IT Services provides support for users connecting to the AUP wireless network using the following operating systems: - Windows XP and Vista - Mac OS X 10.3 or greater.

We do not provide support for other operating systems or for devices such as PDAs and telephones. Furthermore, many of these devices are incapable of connecting to an "enterprise-level" wireless network such as ours.

You are welcome to try connecting to the AUP wifi network using unsupported hardware or operating systems, but please do not ask IT Services for help.

The basic characteristics of our network are listed below.

AUP wireless network characteristics

SSID: AUP
Wireless protocols: 802.11b, 802.11g
Security protocols: WPA Enterprise, TKIP
Authentication protocols: IEEE 802.1X, PEAP (Protected EAP), MS-CHAPv2
Network certificate: aup-ca.pem

Linux with WPA-supplicant

It is possible to connect to the AUP network from a machine running Linux. However, make sure your version of Linux and your wireless card support the protocols indicated above.

On some Linux systems you may need to manually configure wpa_supplicant in order to connect to AUP wifi. The following wpa_supplicant.conf file is known to work.

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=1

network={
        ssid="AUP"
        scan_ssid=1
        proto=WPA
        key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
        pairwise=TKIP
        eap=PEAP
        identity="myusername"
        password="mypassword"
        ca_cert="/root/cert/aup-ca.pem"
        phase1="peaplabel=0"
        phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
        priority=10
}