Not many student realize that A&R and CPS already announce this notice through student portal (MyIIUM) and IIUM Main page. Suddenly when students want to register for their subject, the system says ” Wrong Password” . What…wrong password? and at the bottom of the page says change pin.

Why it is happened?

I asked Ir. Jaiz Anuar who is my Project Manager, and he said that our wireless database cannot read such a special characters like

~ , ! , @ ,# , $ ,% ,^ , & , * , ( , )

Maybe some of you already changed your pin number and most of you put some special characters on it. Actually, it is not students fault because the instruction said that you need to put some special characters in order to strengthen your pin.

In addition, when the pin has been changed, the pin number to connect to wireless also will be effected. So, don’t be surprise when your connection suddenly gone when you try to re-connect again. Actually the pin number that you use to enter for  wireless credential is the same with the pin number that you use for subject registration and etc. So, it’s common that if you change your pin number, automatically your pin number for wireless will also changing.

What should I do?

There are 2 options for that kind of problem. You can either;

• go to A&R (undergraduate) or CPS (Postgraduate) and take your initial pin (6-digit pin), but you need to pay RM3 . Then, when the system ask to change your pin number, make sure you do not put any of the special characters as listed, even though the system asking you to do so.
• go to Wireless Troubleshooting Counter and ask the person in charge to check your pin whether it is matching to pin number inside our database.

REMEMBER….we cannot change or retrieve student pin number for any kind of reason. Please refer to A&R or CPS instead.

When I was testing the beta version of Windows 7, I had a problem to setup the wireless network. IIUM uses Aruba Networks for its wireless infrastructure.  Users are required to register their MAC address to use the wireless service. Furthermore, Aruba uses PEAP-GTC ( Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol-Generic Token Card) for its authentication. Altough PEAP is supported in WIndows 7, it’s  only support for windows PEAP implementation

I tried installing the PEAP-GTC Supplicant for Vista. In WIndows 7 Beta, I think its install ok; but when I tried to select the methods it produces an error. Unfortunately I forgot what the error was. At  any rate I was unable to connect. I tried other plugins from other vendors but still the same error occured.

With Windows 7 RC, I also tried installing the PEAP-GTC supplicant from Aruba. Installation was fine, but somehow I couldn’t select the eap-token needed by Aruba. After several tries I give up, for a while, since I had to finish up some proposals.

Then I tried the Cisco Aironet Client program. It support PEAP, LEAP and EAP. The program installed without a hitch. Once installed, it Allows me to select Cisco PEAP for authentication in the wireless setting. After selecting the required entry, I tried to connect to IIUM network. To my surprise it works. Alhamdullillah, altough just a small victory, but it is a real satisfaction for me.

I let it run for a day, to check connection stability, which many Vista users complained. They said that the connection sometime died and they had to re-register/login to get connected. Again, to my surprise the connection remain strong even when I test the network for various chores such as download large file, internet access and such.

My only concern is that this might only work my a particular network card. So I  am going to test this setup on a wireless enabled laptop next week. Hopefully I’ll be able to connect, too.  (Source : http://blogs.iium.edu.my/ariffin)

Insyaallah, this project is expected to be completed by end of February 2010 which covers all student residential area at IIUM Campus including Gombak, Indera Mahkota, ISTAC Jln Duta, CFS PJ and Nilai