Setting Up Wireless
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Click on Start->Control Panel
- If your control panel is in Classic View Skip to Step 6.
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Click Network and Internet Connections.
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Click Network Connections.
- Skip to Step 7.
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Click Network Connections.
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Right click on your wireless connection and choose properties.
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Click on the Wireless Networks tab.
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Click View Wireless Networks
- Click on the UCMerced network.
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Click Connect
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After a while of connecting you should get a little error message in the bottom of your taskbar.
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Click on Change Advanced Settings.
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Click on the Wireless Networks Tab
- Under Preferred Networks click on UCMerced
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Click Properties
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Click the Authentication tab.
- Check the box that says "Enable IEEE 802.1x authentication for this network."
- In the "EAP type:" choose "Protected EAP(PEAP)"
- Uncheck the box that says "Authenticate as computer when computer information is available"
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Click "Properties"
- Uncheck the box that says "Validate server certificate"
- Make sure that the Authentication Method is set to Secured password (EAP-MSCHAP v2)
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Click Configure.
- Uncheck the box.
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Click OK.
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Click OK.
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Click OK.
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Click OK.
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In the lower right taskbar there will be a window that pops up like the image below. Click on it.
- In the "User name:" box enter in your UCM NetID
- In the "Password:" box enter in your password.
- Leave the "Logon domain:" box blank.
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Click OK.
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If your credentials are correct a window will pop up in the lower right taskbar that says you are connected.


