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Access Point
Use Power Management
Click next to finish the setup. If you have chosen WPA-EAP authentication, another
configuration step is needed before your station is ready for deployment in the WLAN.
Enter the credentials you have been given by your network administrator. For TLS,
provide Identity, Client Certificate, Client Key, and Server Certificate. TTLS and PEAP
require Identity and Password. Server Certificate and Anonymous Identity are optional.
YaST searches for any certificate under /etc/cert. Therefore, save the certificates
given to you to this location and restrict access to these files to 0600 (owner read and
write). Click Details to enter the advanced authentication dialog for your WPA-EAP
setup. Select the authentication method for the second stage of EAP-TTLS or EAP-
PEAP communication. If you selected TTLS in the previous dialog, choose any, MD5,
GTC, CHAP, PAP, MSCHAPv1, or MSCHAPv2. If you selected PEAP, choose any,
MD5, GTC, or MSCHAPv2. PEAP version can be used to force the use of a certain PEAP
implementation if the automatically-determined setting does not work for you.
IMPORTANT: Security in Wireless Networks
Be sure to use one of the supported authentication and encryption methods
to protect your network traffic. Unencrypted WLAN connections allow third
parties to intercept all network data. Even a weak encryption (WEP) is better
than none at all. Refer to
(page 267) for information.
18.1.3 Utilities
The package wireless-tools contains utilities that allow to set wireless LAN
specific parameters and get statistics. See
Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Tools.html
266 Administration Guide
In an environment with several access points, one of them can be preselected
by specifying the MAC address.
When you are on the road, use power saving technologies to maximize the
operating time of your battery. More information about power management is
available in Chapter 15, Power Management
ment may affect the connection quality and increase the network latency.
Section "Encryption"
(page 175). Using power manage-
(page 262) and
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/
for more information.
Section "Security"