Hi all:

I've finally managed to get the Asus EEE PC's Xandros OS to work on the wsunexus (old) wireless network using the pptp vpn. Here's how:

For those EEE PC owners out there, you can now get on the net with wireless on campus! Unfortunately, its not trivial; the EEE PC is missing support for "enterprise wireless" in many ways. Fear not, through this howto we'll address the show-stopping shortcomings and get it working!

First off, we need to get some additional software repositories configured so we can pull in additional or updated software packages. The people over at http://wiki.eeeuser.com/addingxandrosrepos have written up how to do this; I'll include the important parts here.

Go to your menu bar and click on the airport menu item producing this menu, select "WSU Wireless".

This should result in it asking for your credentials (same as my.wsu.edu).

Which results in this (Don't click accept yet -- click show details for the pane after this):

This guide shows how to use the new WSU PEAP wireless deployment with Ubuntu 7.10/8.04 and should work with the various derivatives such as Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Edubuntu.

Setting your clock

Before beginning, make sure that your clock is current. This can be done either through GNOME/KDE or with the `date` command. An out of date clock will fail to validate the certificate.

Installing the prerequisite packages.

Most distributions come with the prerequisite packages. Verify that wpa_supplicant is installed. (Different distributions may have slightly different names for the package.)