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Mac OS 10.5 and Wireless Access

Contributed by Karen Compton on 10/31/07 

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Users of Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) should be aware that this new version of the Mac operating system cannot successfully connect to the IC wireless network.

The Firepass F5 software that is required for wireless access is not yet compatible with OS 10.5. At this time there is no specific information as to when this compatibility issue will be resolved.

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Mac OS 10.5 and Wireless Access Comment from cknight1 on 10/31/07
Wrong. There are two problems.

1. We must upgrade the firepass f5 software to version 6.0.2
It's obvious that the software hasn't been upgraded in years because the plugin that we download to make the java client function was last modified in October 2005.

v6.0.2 was released last month. It supports intel, so we won't have to use Rosetta either.

2. Leopard changes the location of the pppd process from Tiger. To remedy this you would run this command in the terminal

<i>sudo ln -s /var/run/DirectoryService.pid /var/run/lookupd.pid</i>

This command tells firepass where the new process running pppd is located.

You may also be able to go into the directory manually, copy the process, and paste it under the name that the plugin is looking for. It doesn't much matter anyway because Until we upgrade the SSL VPN software, step 2 is useless.

-C Knight