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If you are a Brooklyn College student, who has a Linux device and wonders how he / she can surf the web on campus, then this procedure should be helpful for you.

I tried the following steps on the Ubuntu Maverick 10.10 using the GNOME 2.32.0. So the following procedure applies to that environment mentioned above. Although I assume it will be very similar on other distributions, or other desktop environments.

1) Go to the Network Manager by right-clicking on the connections applet, the one which shows how strong your WiFi / Ethernet / 3G signal is, and selecting Edit Connections.

2) You will see the window with several tabs there.

3) In the Wireless tab go to where it says SSID and put BC-WiFi.

4) Then go to the Wireless Security tab and choose WPA & WPA2 Enterprise as Security.

5) As for the Authentication choose Tunneled TLS.

6) You may leave Anonymous identity blank.

7) Skip the CA certificate and leave it with None chosen.

8) Inner authentication should be PAP.

9) Then enter your Brooklyn College email username as Username.

10) Password is your password to your Brooklyn College email, which is in the format: MMDDSSSSS where M is your month of birth, D is your day of birth, S is five last digits of your SSN.

11) Press button Apply, which as a result should give you one more dialogue window where you should press Connect. It can give you another dialogue window complaining about CA Certificate, but you just need to press Ignore.

I hope this article was helpful. Enjoy!