Using the Mac OS X 802.1x Client in Mac OS 10.3 and 10.4

You can now use Mac laptop computers that have AirPort wireless cards or build-in wireless with the UIC-Wireless network. The only catch is that you must upgrade to Mac OS X 10.3.x, Panther, or Mac OS 10.4.x, Tiger, or higher. For MacBooks, you must upgrade to Mac OS 10.4.6 or higher. There is no way to have an earlier version of the Mac OS (say, 9.x, 10.0.x, 10.1.x, or "Jaguar" 10.2.x) and use the UIC-Wireless network.

• The process of getting connected is the same for Panther and Tiger; the screens just look a little different. That is described in this page.
  
  
• The process of getting connected is different for Leopard, Mac OS 10.5. That is described in the following page, Using the Mac OS X 802.1x Client in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

If your Mac doesn't have built-in wireless, you need to by a wireless card for it. Your best bet is to stick with an AirPort 802.11g wireless network card, which does work with the UIC Wireless network's Odyssey servers. We have tested Cisco's wireless card and drivers for Powerbooks and they also work. The Mac laptops' built-in wireless also works.

1. From the Apple menu, select System Preferences. On the System Preferences window, click once on the Network system preference in the Internet & Network section. You should see the following system preference pane:
   
   
2. Either double-click on the Airport item or select the Airport item and click the Configure... button.
3. This will display the TCP/IP configuration options for your wireless connection. Click on the TCP/IP tab near the top of the preference pane.
4. Configure IPv4 should be set to Using DHCP. If it doesn't say that, select it from the pop-up menu.
5. Close the Network system preference pane and quit from within the System Preferences application.

1. Select the Airport menu from the menu bar at the top of your display; the icon is shaped like a piece of pie. You should see an item that reads Turn Airport On (if you do not see this, your Airport card may already be turned on).
   
   
2. If you are near an ACCC wireless access point, you should now be able to find the UIC-Wireless network; select it.
   
   If the UIC-Wireless doesn't show, don't worry; you can manually add it when you configure the 8021x client.

1. To do this, first select Open Internet Connect... from the Airport menu (above).
2. To enable Panther's 802.1x client, select New 802.1X Connection... from Internet Connect's File menu.
   
   
3. A new toolbar icon will now be displayed on the Internet Connect window, and you will now be able to edit its 802.1x settings.
   
   
4. From the Configuration: pop-up menu, select Edit Configurations....
   
   
5. Type your netid in the User Name: box and your common password in the Password: box. If you did not see the ACCC access point name, UIC-Wireless, when you enabled Airport, type UIC-Wireless in the Wireless Network: text entry field.
   
   
6. Next, TTLS must be configured. To do that, select the TTLS entry from the list that appears near the bottom of the window and click Configure....
   
   
7. Now enter TTLS authentication information. From the TTLS Inner Authentication pop-up menu, select PAP. For Outer Identity enter anonymous.
   
   
8. Click OK then OK again.

1. Select Open Internet Connect... from the Airport menu.
2. Click on the Connect button within the Internet Connect window.
3. The first time you connect to UIC-Wireless, you will be asked to accept two certificates from the access point. Because your Mac does not yet have a network connection, it is impossible for it to verify the authenticity of these certificates. However, it is safe to accept them. Click Always trust these certificates and click Continue.
   
   
   
4. After you select UIC-Wireless from the Airport menu, you will see a signal strength indicator in your menu bar that shows how good your connection is. The more bars in the Airport pie icon, the stronger the signal.
   
   (Note that sometimes you won't see the UIC-Wireless that identifies an access point even though it's there. Just open the 802.1x client as described above, and type UIC-Wireless in the Wireless Network box in the Internet Connect Window and configure as described in that section.)

Select Turn AirPort Off from the Airport menu.

Your wireless laptop can be configured to print to the ACCC public computing lab printers. Print your jobs at any hour, day or night, pick up your output at your convenience by selecting the job(s) to be printed from a U-Print station in any public computing lab. This is the same printing system as is used with Res-Net in the dorms, and to use it, you will need to install the Res-Net Printing System client. See Res-Net Printing for links to pages with detailed instructions.