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Set up Your Wireless Connection

1. To update your OS X:
2. Go to finder.
3. Click on the Apple icon (top left side).
4. Select Software Update.
5. Restart your computer.
6. Click on the Apple icon:
   1. Go to System Preferences.
   2. Click on Network.
   3. Select AirPort.
   4. Click on the Advanced button.
      
      Note: Avoid connecting to the "Guest" network automatically.
      
      
      1. Disconnect from the "Guest" network if previously connected:
      2. Log out and log back in.
      3. Click on the “Advanced...” button above.
      4. Place a check mark next to the option “Disconnect from wireless networks when logging out”.
      5. Again, make sure that the "Guest" network does not appear in the preferred network box.
         
         
         
7. From the Advanced Network window:
   1. Click on the tab 802.1X.
8. On the Advanced Network window, for the User Profiles section:
   1. Click on plus icon.
   2. Select “Add User Profile”.
   3. Type any name for this user profile. Any other profile should be removed.
9. On the Advanced Network window:
   1. For User Name, enter your BroncoName.
   2. For password, enter your Network Password (this password is not the same as your BroncoPassword).
      
      Note: To set your Network Password, see eHelp's General FAQs page (link opens in a new window).
      
      
   3. For wireless network, enter CPP.
   4. For Authentication, check mark PEAP, TTLS and EAP-FAST.
   5. Click OK.
      
      
      
10. Click the wireless icon (upper right corner):
    1. Click on "Join Other Network . . .".
       
       
       
11. On the Network window:
    1. For Network Name, enter CPP.
    2. For Security, select WPA Enterprise.
    3. For User Name, enter your BroncoName.
    4. For Password, enter your Network Password (this password is not the same as your BroncoPassword).
       
       Note: To set your Network Password, see eHelp's General FAQs page (link opens in a new window).
       
       
12. Click Join.
13. Click Apply.
    
    Note: The above settings should work with CISCO AP, which supports PEAP, LEAP and MSCHAP. In Tiger, settings were configured as LEAP, and it worked. However, settings configured as LEAP will not work for Leopard.
    
    
    
14. Click Done.
    

If you have any questions, contact the Cal Poly Pomona Help Desk. Log into Web Help Desk (WHD) and submit a Help Desk ticket to the Cal Poly Pomona Help Desk (you will need to know your BroncoName and BroncoPassword). If you can't log into WHD, use the help request form or stop by the I&IT Help Desk in Building 1, Room 100. The Help Desk is open Monday - Thursday, 7:30 AM - 6:00 PM and Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM (excluding state holidays and state furlough Fridays).

 

This page was last updated July 10, 2008.