Operation Manual

Figure 24.1:

YaST: Conguring the Wireless Network Card

Procedure 24.2:

Entering the Encryption Details

The following authentication methods require an encryption key: WEP - Open, WEP -

Shared Key, and WPA-PSK.

For WEP, usually only key is needed—however, up to 4 different WEP keys can be

dened for your station. One of them needs to be set as the default key and is used for

encryption. The others are used for decryption. Per default, a key length of 128-bit is

used, but you can also choose to set the length to 64-bit.

For higher security, WPA-EAP uses a RADIUS server to authenticate users. For authen-

tication at the server, three different methods are available: TLS, TTLS and PEAP. The

credentials and certicates you need for WPA-EAP depend on the authentication method

used for the RADIUS server. Ask your system administrator to provide the needed in-

formation and credentials. YaST searches for any certicate under /etc/cert.

Therefore, save the certicates given to you to this location and restrict access to these

les to 0600 (owner read and write).

To enter the key for WEP - Open or WEP - Shared Key:

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