This tutorial is created for Multimedia University(MMU) Students in Cyberjaya who is using any distribution of Linux and wants to connect to the ‘MMU’ wifi server. I was using Ubuntu to create this tutorial.

Recently, after installing Ubuntu on my netbook I seem to have trouble connecting to the internet in campus because of the ‘wonderful’ IT facility provided by MMU Cyberjaya. I contacted a guy from the Network and Telecommunication Unit(NTU) to get the settings to connect but he didn’t even understand what I was asking and asking me to connect to the VPN and also refer to http://access.mmu.edu.my, but there is no Linux settings to connect to the ‘MMU’ server. Finally, I just went to the library, cracked my head and tried various combination’s of the settings one by one and got it to work.

I assume that you are able to connect to the ‘Public’ server in MMU. Sometimes the ‘Public’ server doesn’t seem to work, so I use to connect to the ‘MMU’ server so that I can surf the net. In Windows we can use SecureW2 and connect to the server but SecureW2 refuses to port this program to Linux. Good news is that Linux supports WPA/WPA2 without the need of SecureW2 which makes it easier for us to connect to the ‘MMU’ server.
OK, lets move on to the tutorial.

First you need to make sure that you are within the range of the ‘MMU’ server.
Then just click on it and you will see this :

Fill in the details as in the image.

1. Select Tunneled TLS.
2. Type ‘anonymous’ in the Anonymous Identity row.
3. Change the Inner authentication to PAP
4. Replace the xxxxxxxxxx with your student ID and don’t forget the ‘@student’ which is the domain.
5. Your webmail password. NOT YOUR ICEMS PASSWORD. (If you cannot remember your password, don’t worry, you can easily change it using your icems password. You can only change your password within the campus.)

And then click connect and you will be prompted with this screen.

Just click ignore.

That’s it !! You’re done !!
You will be able to see this in a few seconds.

It’s as easy as that ?
Who said Linux is not user friendly ??

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