A former member of our club, Paul Betts, created an excellent guide explaining how to connect to wireless in Ubuntu. Find a summarized guide for those who aren't having trouble with their closed-source drivers below.

First, you should have the Gnome Network Manager installed. Most Ubuntu distributions come with this by default, and if it's installed, you will see an icon something like this in the top-right corner of the screen near the date/time. If not, then (from a place where you do have internet access) run:

sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome

Now that the Network Manager is taken care of, you'll need to register before you're allowed to connect to osuwireless. That can be done online here. If you forget your password, rather than re-registering, you can recover it here, or if it's your OSU username, you'll need to contact the IT Service Desk. Note that your username and password for wireless is different from your OSU username/password. The password will be completely different, and your OSU username will have a "w" appended to the end of it. I'll use my username, , as an example in this how-to.

Now we're ready to configure your device. Find a place on campus with wireless internet (map) and click the Network Manager button. Select "osuwireless" from the list. Do not select osuguest or OSUVOICE, as these are off-limits to students. You'll get a prompt that looks something like this. Make sure all of these fields match up, and fill in your wireless username and password (not your OSU username/password).

Now fill in your username and password, leaving the rest of the fields blank. (In my case, my username would be w.) If your prompt has a field listed as PEAP Version select "Version 0". Anything else should be as shown above or left blank (default).

Once the fields are filled in as described, hit connect. If you're within an acceptable range of the wireless access point, you should be able to load your favorite web page within 30 seconds. If you're in a dorm, you may need to complete an extra step. If so, when you first load a page, you will see a ResNet login prompt. Log in here using your regular OSU username/password. After you have connected the first time, your computer should automatically connect to osuwireless whenever it's in range, though you may need to log in at the ResNet page once in a while... If you attempted to connect to osuguest, Ubuntu will automatically try to connect to that, possibly before worrying about osuwireless, and it won't get anywhere. You can disable it by removing the "osuguest" folder in ~/.gconf/system/networking/wireless/networks/ and it will forget it ever tried to connect to osuguest. If you are running Ubuntu 9.04, you can right-click the wireless icon, select the Wireless tab, and delete it from that list. Same with OSUVOICE.