Ohlone Wireless Networking - Information Technology (IT) Department
- Connect to Ohlone's Wireless Network
- Mapping Drives and Printers on Ohlone's Wireless Network
- What is Wireless Networking?
Connect to Ohlone's Wireless Network
Step 1: Install Ohlone's Digital Certificate on Your Computer
Access to Ohlone's Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) requires that you have an Ohlone College "Computer Lab Account". You can create and/or update this account from the Ohlone College Web Services Accounts page (also available at https://accounts.ohlone.edu or in WebAdvisor by selecting "Manage Your Web Services Account").
- Your wireless device's connection to Ohlone's WLAN will be encrypted using Transport Layer Security to secure wireless communications between your device and the network. To enable encryption:
- download Ohlone's Wireless CA digital certificate (right click on the link and save the certificate file to your desktop using the "Save target as" option (note that the name of this option is different for different browsers)), then
- follow the certificate installation instructions
Step 2: Configure Your Computer
From the list below, select the instructions for your computer's operating system:
- Windows XP
- Windows 2000 - Note: You must configure both Windows 2000 and the wireless card.
- Windows 2000 (shared by all cards)
- 3Com
- Linksys
- Proxim 8480
- Map a Drive - Windows 2000
- Windows 95/98/ME
- Not supported at this time
- Macintosh
- Panther (10.3)
- Mac OS X (10.2 and older) (instructions not yet available)
- Mac OS 9 (instructions not yet available)
- Linux
- Meetinghouse (instructions not yet available)
- Open1X
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