September 9, 2008
Posted by Ted Avery
How to fix your UOIT Laptop Wireless
NOTE: As of the 2009-2010 academic year, this is no longer an issue on the latest laptop image.
The problem of the UOIT laptop wireless issues have been solved. If you cannot connect to your home wi-fi properly, this is for you.
1. Click your Start Menu, then Connect To, then Show all connections.
2. Find the connections labeled VMware Virtual Ethernet Adapter. You may not have two like me. Right-click each one, then click Disable.
3. Right-click your Wireless Network Connection, then click Properties.
4. Uncheck the VMware Bridge Protocol box.
5. Restart your computer and you are done! 
Thanks to Jamere, Millie, and Zahid for telling me the fix.
For the technically inclined that want an explanation, basically VMware (a virtual machine program) is installed on the laptops and has it’s own default gateway configured. Your default gateway, simply put, is the address of your router that your computer connects to. For some reason the VMware settings override your actual wireless router settings, so instead of connecting properly to your router, it tries to connect to the default gateway defined through the VMware Network driver.
8 Comments
October 3, 2008
Ted. I seriously am considering just coming up to you and giving you a hug. You have no idea how much frustration this saved me!
October 3, 2008
No problem! I'm glad someone is at least getting use out of these, haha.
October 16, 2008
do you know what type of eap encrpytion this school uses? i'm trying to connect my n95 to the wifi, i need some type of certificate, but donno where to get it
October 16, 2008
No idea, but looking at the settings put in on the laptop, maybe what you are looking for is “EAP-MSCHAP v2″. What that means, I don't know.
November 12, 2008
It is most definitely EAP-MSCHAP v2, but I still don't know what authentication certificate to use, if you have any ideas on that your help would be very much appreciated.
November 12, 2008
It is most definitely EAP-MSCHAP v2, but I still don't know what authentication certificate to use, if you have any ideas on that your help would be very much appreciated.
June 8, 2010
Hey ted can you make a tutorial on how to connect android phones to the campus air. Blackberry and Apple phones can connect but not android. It says that you need WEP enterprise certificate.
June 8, 2010
Hey ted can you make a tutorial on how to connect android phones to the campus air. Blackberry and Apple phones can connect but not android. It says that you need WEP enterprise certificate.
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