How to Connect your Mac to the umd-secure Wireless Network Using OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

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  1. Select Turn AirPort Off in AirPort icon dropdown menu (located on the upper right side of the menu bar).

  2. Launch Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > Keychain Access.

    1. Cleanup: From the login keychain, remove any umd-* wireless entries.

    2. Cleanup: From the System keychain, remove any umd-* wireless entries.

    3. From the System Roots keychain, double click on Thawte Premium Server CA.

      1. Expand the Trust section.

      2. From the gray Extensible Authentication (EAP) pulldown, select Always Trust.
        (Note: This step is necessary due to a bug. At some point, the user will be prompted to accept trust settings for the wireless.umd.edu certificate. There is a lot of typing that must be done at that point, and if it’s not completed quickly the EAP authentication will time out and interfere with the configuration.)

      3. Close certificate window and save changes.

  3. Launch System Preferences > Network.

    1. Select Edit Locations from the Location pulldown and add a UMD Wireless entry.

    2. Click the Click the lock to make changes lock picture.

    3. Select UMD Wireless from the locations pulldown if not already selected.

      1. Delete Bluetooth, Ethernet, and Firewire devices so that only Airport is shown.

      2. Click the Advanced… button.

      3. Cleanup: Click on AirPort tab if not already selected.

        1. Delete any umd networks from the Preferred Networks list.

      4. Click the 802.1X tab.

        1. From the Domain: dropdown menu, select User.

        2. Cleanup: Delete any umd-* configurations.

        3. Add a configuration called umd-ttls-pap.

        4. In the User Name: field, enter your Directory ID.

        5. In the Password: field, enter your Directory password.

        6. In the Wireless Network: field, enter umd-secure.

        7. In the Authentication: field, deselect everything except TTLS.

        8. Select TTLS and click the Configure button.

        9. Pulldown PAP for TTLS Inner Authentication. Click OK.

      5. Click OK.

    4. Click the Apply button.

  4. Select Turn AirPort On in AirPort icon dropdown menu.

  5. Select umd-secure from the AirPort icon dropdown menu.
    (Note: Due to an apparent OS X 10.5 bug, do not use the System Preferences > Network, Network Name: pulldown to select your wireless network. Use the AirPort icon instead.)

 

 

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