HOWTO: GWireless on Gentoo
Gentoo October 3rd, 2005
The GWU ISS simply ignores the Linux users’ need on GWireless, there is no resource, no support for Linux user. From the screenshot of VPN client on Mac OSX platform, we can conclude that GWireless is secured by Cisco VPN client.
For Gentoo users, just
You might need to fill several forms for Cisco before you login and download vpnclient-linux-x86_64-4.6.03.0190-k9.tar.gz. Or you can get it from here. Copy it to /usr/portage/distfiles, and re-run the previous command.
For other users who are using latest kernel-2.6.14, you need to apply this patch, since 2.6.14 has changed the sk_buffer data structure, then
# ./vpn_install
After that, you need to copy the profile profile from one Windows installation to /etc/opt/cisco-vpnclient/Profiles, and make it worldwide readable.
Update Due to the agreement of the Cisco VPN client, the profile file is removed, thanks to Mackenzie.
$ vpnclient connect gwireless ./vpn_install
Enjoy!
[...] VPN client to access GWireless and Penn State Wireless for quite a long time since I managed to get it work. Two things bother me, the notice in dmesg cisco_ipsec: module license ‘Proprietary’ [...]
I have yet to test this, but I would still like to thank you for this how-to. A new Linux user greatly appreciates your help.