Follow these steps to connect to NIHnet via wireless.
- Equipment: get a wireless client card that is compatible with the 802.11g or older 802.11b standard.
Contact the NIH Help Desk or your IC Technical LAN Coordinator for advice on selecting a wireless card. CIT recommends the Cisco Aironet wireless client card. CIT also provides wireless client profiles for Avaya, Enterasys, and Apple wireless client cards.
- Obtain SSID and WEP key.
Contact your IC Technical LAN Coordinator or the NIH Help Desk to obtain the SSID and WEP key.
- Download client software.
- If you have a Cisco, Avaya, or Enterasys wireless client card, log on to CIT’s iSDP Web site for wireless to download client drivers, software utilities and procedures for installation and configuration.
- If your client card is from another vendor,download the appropriate software from the vendor’s Web site.
- Install wireless client software and configure wireless client profile.
- Follow the procedures that you downloaded from the iSDP (step 3 above).
- If you need assistance, contact the NIH Help Desk.
- Download and install VPN software.
- Log on to CIT’s iSDP Web site for VPN to download the VPN client software.
(Note: If your laptop is running Macintosh OS 8 or 9, you can purchase the wireless VPN client software from Netlock. MovianVPN for Palm or Windows CE is available from Certicom.)
- Follow the instructions at CIT’s Remote Access Web site to install the VPN client software. Note: You do not need a VPN account to use the NIH wireless network VPN.
- Contact the NIH Help Desk for assistance if needed.
- Log on to NIHnet using VPN.
- Power up your laptop and wait for about two minutes for initialization to be completed.
- Connect via wireless VPN using your NIH domain username and password.
- Log on to Windows with your NIH domain username and password.
Windows loads and you are connected to NIHnet via VPN.
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