I have recently started studying at the University of York and am living in their halls of residence. In order to use the free network connection, you have to be able to use 802.1x authentication. It turns out that Ubuntu, Mac OS X, Windows XP and Windows Vista all make a terrible job of this when it comes to WIRED connections. I should know as in my house of 10 people all of these operating systems are being used and I have ended up having to fix each of them... usually several times <glares at vista>.

Anyway, I have now produced a .deb file so that other Ubuntu users will be able to connect painlessly to the NAS here at the University of York, whether in halls, or connecting whilst on campus at one of the many wired connection points. It should already be very easy to connect via wireless whilst on campus, though I haven't actually tested this yet.

The deb can be found in the "debs" category in the download section of this site. If anyone has any problems with it please let me know so I can modify it accordingly!

I haven't tested this with any other university/802.1x secured networks, but if they use the same settings as the one here at York then there's no reason it shouldn't work for those too. Just remember to remove "@york.ac.uk" from the default username.