Vista Wireless Setup

These instructions will assist you in setting up your wireless network connection to access the University wireless network. You cannot access the network if you are not on the University campus. If you require additional help, please stop by the Help Desk in Gardner 212. (Source:elpdesk.uafortsmith)

You must have a valid Windows userid and password assigned to you by the University before you will be able to access the wireless network.

VistaWirelessSetup.pdf: Vista Wireless Setup - pdf

1) Click the WindowsConnect To button. button and click the (For XP View: Click “Start”, then “Network Connection” and double click your wireless network connection)
2) Right click on 5210, Security-enabled network. If Properties is an option, select it and skip to Step 9 If it is not an option, click on Set up a connection or network
3) Select Manually connect to a wireless network 4) Click Next.
5) Enter the following information at the prompts. Network name: 5210 Security type: WPA-Enterprise Encryption type: TKIP 6) Make sure Start this connection automatically is checked. 7) Click Next.
8) Select Change connection settings
9) The “5210 Wireless Network properties” window appears. 10) Click the Security tab. 11) Make sure Choose a network authentication method is set to Protected EAP (PEAP) 12) Click the Settings… button.
13) Uncheck Validate server certificate 14) Click on the Configure button
15) Uncheck Automatically use my Windows logon name and password (and domain if any) 16) Click OK on all windows to get back to the Desktop.
17) The Additional information is requiredClick the message to login. dialog box will appear in the lower right hand corner of your screen.
18) Enter your User namepassword. Leave the Logon domain blank and click OK. and If your username and password match, you will be connected to the network. Open up your web browser and make sure you can load web pages.

Mac Wireless

Mac OS X Instructions for Wireless

NOTE: We have trouble setting up wireless access on OS 10.4.5, 10.4.6 and newer versions. Versions of OS 10.4.4 and earlier work fine.

• Click on the Wi Fi symbol in the upper right corner of the screen.
• A pull-down menu should appear. Make sure Airport is on.
• Click on Other.
• The Close Network menu should appear.
• In Wireless Security menu choose WPA Enterprise.
  • May need to choose LEAP in some cases - if WPA Enterprise does not work
• Enter 5210 as the Network Name.
• Enter your campus username and password where prompted.
• Make sure the 802.11X configuration box is set to Automatic.
• Click OK.

If the above instructions do not work:

• Under the Airport menu, select Open Internet Connect...
• Click on 802.1X in the toolbar.

If you do not see the toolbar, click on the white or blue oval, "tic-tac" looking button in the top right corner of the window. If you do not see an 802.1X icon, click on File, then New 802.1x Connection... The 802.1x Connection Window will appear.

• Under the "Configuration" pull down menu, select Edit Configurations...
• Click on the + (plus) button in the lower left-hand corner.

Fill in the displayed fields with the following information:

• • Description: 5210
  • Network Port: AirPort
  • User Name: enter your UA Fort Smith userid
  • Password: enter your UA Fort Smith password
  • Wireless Network: 5210
  • Authentication: PEAP (NOTE: Only check PEAP)
  • Click OK to exit the Internet Connect configuration.
  • Click Connect.

You may be asked to accept a certificate the first time you connect. If so, the certificate will be issued by UA Fort Smith and GeoTrust.

• • Click Continue.

Troubleshooting tip: If you receive an "Invalid certificate" message when attempting to connect, make sure you only checked PEAP.

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Installing Windows XP on the Asus EEE PC USB flash drive

Installing Windows XP on the Asus EEE pc using a single USB flash drive.


To complete this tutorial you need a 32bit version of Windows XP or Windows Vista installed on your home PC.

What you'll need:
USB_PREP8 (alternative download)
PeToUSB (alternative download)
Bootsect.exe (alternative download)
Special Note: If you use the program Nlite be sure to keep the manual installation files as the USB_prep8 script relies on these files.

Extract the files in Bootsect.zip
The next step is to extract USB_prep8 and PeToUSB.
Next copy the PeToUSB executable into the USB_prep8 folder.
Inside of the USB_prep8 folder double click the executable named usb_prep8.cmd.

The window that opens will look like this:



Press any key to continue

You next window will look like this:
These settings are preconfigured for you all you need to do now is click start.
Once the format is complete DO NOT close the window just leave everything as it is and open a command prompt from your start menu (type cmd in the search bar or run box depending on your version of windows.).

Inside of the command windows go to the directory you have bootsect.exe saved.
(use the cd directoryname command to switch folders)

Now type "bootsect.exe /nt52 R:" NOTE R: is the drive letter for my USB stick if yours is different you need to change it accordingly. What this part does is write the correct boot sector to your USB stick, this allows your PC to boot from the USB stick without it nothing works.
Please note: When running the bootsect.exe command you cannot have any windows open displaying the content of your USB stick, if you have a window open bootsect.exe will be unable to lock the drive and write the bootsector correctly.

If all went well you should see "Bootcode was successfully updated on all targeted volumes."

Now you can close this command prompt (don't close the usbprep8 one by mistake) and the petousb window.

You window you see now should look like this:

If it doesn't try pressing enter.

Now you need to enter the correct information for numbers 1-3.
Press 1 and then enter. A folder browse window will open for you to browse to the location of you XP setup files (aka your cdrom drive with xp cd in)
Press 2 and enter a letter not currently assigned to a drive on your PC
Press 3 and enter the drive letter of your USB stick
Press 4 to start the process.

The script will ask you if its ok to format drive T:. This is just a temp drive the program creates to cache the windows installation files. Press Y then enter.

Once it's done formating press enter to continue again, you can now see the program copying files to the temp drive it created. Once this is done press enter to continue again.

Next you will see a box pop up asking you to copy the files to USB drive yes/no you want to click yes.

Once the script has completed copy files a popup window asking if you would like to USB drive to be preferred boot drive U: select YES on this window.

Now select yes to unmount the virtual drive.

Ok we are done the hard part, close the usbprep8 window.

Now make sure your EEE pc is configured with USB as the primary boot device.
Insert your USB drive and boot up the EEE.

On the startup menu you have two options, select option number 2 for text mode setup.

From this point on it is just like any other windows XP installation delete/recreate the primary partition on your EEE pc and format it using NTFS. Make sure you delete ALL partitions and recreate a single partition or you will get the hal.dll error message.

Once the text mode portion of setup is complete it will boot into the GUI mode (you can press enter after the reboot if your too excited to wait the 30 seconds)

Once the GUI portion of setup is complete you will again have to boot into GUI mode this will complete the XP installation and you will end up at you XP desktop. It is very important that you DO NOT REMOVE THE USB STICK before this point. Once you can see your start menu it is safe to remove the usb stick and reboot your pc to make sure everything worked.

This method has advantages over all current no cdrom methods of installing XP to the EEE. You do not have to copy setup files in DOS to the SSD and install from there. It gives you access to the recovery console by booting into text mode setup, and it gives you the ability to run repair installations of XP if you have problems later on.

If this is succesfull, please leave a comment!

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