My school has a wireless guest network, but it is insanely slow and doesn't work in half the school. There's also a personal drive for everyone that I would like to access. They have a "Protected" wireless network for school computers to use.
Every student gets a username and password to log on from any school computer. Is there a way I can use the same login credentials, but on my personal laptop? I am running Arch Linux, with the WICD network manager.
Best Answer
To answer the connecting to the wireless network part, it depends how the school's security is set up. If they're using a RADIUS server, you should be able to use your login credentials to access the network (if you try connecting to their wifi SSID, it should ask for a username and password). If they're trying to limit access to school-owned computers only, with a WPA2-personal password, you'll have to ask an administrator for the network key. (There are ways to break WPA2 but SU doesn't cover those.)