nub alert - wpa2 support

[donQuixotedelaMancha]

I've been trying to access an account on a server I have at my school. Unfortunately I cannot do this on the school's public wireless network and must use their "secure" network which is secured using wpa2. My card is not configured to use wpa2 and I was wondering if it was possible to do so..

Wireless card is an IBM High-Rate Wireless LAN mini PCI (that's all I know) and I'm using a 2.2 GHz IBM r40 (from 2002) if the model matters..

Honestly, I have no idea what I'm doing and searching on google and this forum has turned up nothing. If google fails me then I'm lost so..If someone could help me I'd appreciate it.

New to linux, btw. Thanks in advance..

[D-cat]

Have you installed the WPA Supplicant?

It is recommended you install via Yast.

[donQuixotedelaMancha]

I believe it came pre-installed or I've automatically updated..either way, it's installed.

[D-cat]

What have you used to configure it? You can search for and install front-ends in Yast (or use one that is installed)(using a GUI front end is suggested), or you can configure the /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file manually (options are numerous)... have you read the examples? Seeing you're using a school connection, I'm going to assume a WAP2 CCMP connection, this was the example given for that, edit as required for their network:

# WPA2-EAP/CCMP using EAP-TLS

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant

network={
	ssid="example wpa2-eap network"
	key_mgmt=WPA-EAP
	proto=WPA2
	pairwise=CCMP
	group=CCMP
	eap=TLS
	ca_cert="/etc/cert/ca.pem"
	private_key="/etc/cert/user.p12"
	private_key_passwd="PKCS#12 passphrase"
}

There are plenty of other example files in the link given above. See if you can find a matching set up.

If you intend to manually configure wpa_supplicant, read the files contained in /usr/share/doc/packages/wpa_supplicant since this is basically the cli manual for it.

[donQuixotedelaMancha]

Well I'm on spring break now and so cannot try it out for another week but the conf file looks easy enough to figure out. Somewhere on the school's website are the config settings.

Thanks for your help.