Aidan Delaney’s weblog

There are two aspects to connecting to the UoB wireless network. The first are the connection settings and the second is having the correct encryption key. The correct settings are depicted in the screenshot below. In a nutshell, you’ve got to use Version 0 of PEAP. And it’s important that you use version 0 as version 1 simply doesn’t work. Your username and password are your usual UoB login credentials.

The correct key for the network is the key from GTE Cyber Trust. The UoB key is signed by the GTE key. You can get that from here (or on this site Verizon Business somewhere), but you may have to rename it from a .crt file to a .pem file in order for the file-chooser to pick it up.

So just to run through all the steps:

1. Choose to connect to the UoB wireless network from the dropdown list (see figure below)
2. Ensure the correct settings are set (particularly the version 0)
3. Put in your username and password
4. Download the GTE certificate to your home directory (you can’t delete it later)
5. Rename the GTE certificate from .crt to .pem
6. Choose the GTE .pem file as the CA Certificate
7. Click ok….it should then work

If you’re having problems and are a student of mine; bring your laptop to a lab. If you’re another staff member; feel free to email me.

Today’s menu for the big’uns is pheasant with colcannon and veg. The C-monster gets trout with colcannon. In this part of the U.K. you can buy a pheasant for the same price as a chicken from a large retail chain. The pheasant is totally free-range (a wild bird) and we can make it stretch over two days. I could make a cheap chicken stretch over three to four days, but the quality of the wild bird is more than adequate compensation Plus it takes 30 mins to cook pheasant. That’s as quick as some stir-fry recipes and counts as really fast good food in my book.

The best thing about working in a University is that I’m constantly surrounded by _really smart_ colleagues who can argue their point. This is good for me as they don’t let me get away with spouting too much bull.