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Configuring ASU Wireless on Windows XP
Installers for specific wireless cards
The university has created installers for the following wireless cards. These installers will automatically set up your wireless card to work with the ASU network.
If you are not sure what kind of wireless card you have, do not use these installers. Instead, follow the steps outlined later in this document, which should work for almost all devices.
Configuration for all wireless cards
Notes
- If you are not running Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows XP, you will need to download and install SP2 before continuing. You can download and install that service pack from http://www.microsoft.com/. Then click on Microsoft Updates under Product Resources.
- If you are missing WPA and WPA2 from the menu in step 4, you may need to install an update for your wireless driver or this XP hot fix from Microsoft: KB893357
1. Go to Control Panel and open Network Connections.
2. Right Mouse click on your Wireless Network Connection and choose Properties. The window that opens has 3 tabs: General (step #3) Wireless Networks (step #4-10) and Advanced.
3. Click on the GENERAL TAB. Scroll down the list and highlight Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), then click on the Properties button below the list. Verify that the options below are set.
4. On the WIRELESS NETWORKS tab: Click ADD, the Wireless network properties window opens (see step #5).
Note: If you have an existing asu entry listed under Preferred Networks, you will need to remove all those connections before you will get the windows credential login box (step #11).
5. Association Tab: Type in asu in the SSID field. Select WPA2 from the Network Authentication dropdown list, then select AES from the Data Encryption dropdown list.
6. Click on the Authentication Tab: Check the enable IEEE 802.1x authentication checkbox. Choose Protected EAP (PEAP) for the EAP type. Uncheck both authentication boxes below this.
7. Click Properties on EAP type: Check Validate server certificate and scroll down on the Trusted Root Certification Authorities list and choose Equifax Secure Certificate Authority. In the Select Authentication Method dropdown list, choose: Secured Password (EAP-MSCHAPv2) and then click on the CONFIGURE (see step #8).
8. Uncheck: Automatically use my Windows login name and password checkbox and click OK. Now, click OK on the Protected EAP Properties tab to close it.
9. Click on the Connection Tab and check the Connect when this network is in range checkbox and then click OK.
10. Click on the ADVANCED button at the bottom of the Wireless Networks tab. Check ONLY: Access point (infrastructure) networks only. Click Close.
11. After clicking OK on the Wireless Networks tab, an information box appears on the wireless connection in SYSTRAY. Click on that box and you will be prompted to enter credentials. You must supply a username and password. The generic username is asu and the password is asu. No domain is required.
12. Once the wireless device is connected, you will be required to register the wireless NIC using a valid ASU userid/password. Bring up a browser window, the network registration page should automatically load. If not, go to https://netreg2.appstate.edu/. (note: link only works on campus)
