WPA Wireless Installation

Please note that along with other various enhancements and import bug fixes, the patches released by Apple include important enhancements to the wireless subsystem. Therefore, we highly recommend that you ensure that your apple system is fully up to with all patches before proceeding with these directions.

Requirements

NOTE - Your wireless card needs to be registered through WPI Network Registration (http://netreg.wpi.edu/) prior to working on the WPI Wireless Network.

Setup of WPI Wireless Network

  1. Make sure your computer's clock is set to the correct date and time.
  2. Find your Mac OS X wireless MAC address (AirPort ID).
  3. Make sure your computer's wireless MAC address is registered through WPI Network Registration.
  4. Wait 30 minutes for your registration to become active.
  5. Using a Mac or PC that is already on the Internet, browse to the WPI Wireless Networking Certificate Files secure download page.
  6. Log in using your CCC account.
  7. From the Mac OS X v10.7 (Lion) section, download the Wireless Configuration File and make a note of the Wireless User Certificate Password at the top of the page which is needed to unlock the certificate file.
  8. Copy the wpi-macos.mobileconfig file that you downloaded to the Mac you want to connect to the WPI Wireless network.

  9. Double click on the file to begin the import process.
  10. Click continue. On the confirmation screen, click continue again.
  11. When prompted, enter the password from the secure download page and click Install.
  12. For security reasons, you may be prompted for the username and password of your currently logged in account. This is the password for your local machine, not your CCC acount or the certificate password.
  13. You should now see a final confirmation screen displaying the settings as imported.
Your computer should now automatically connect to the WPI-Wireless network.