Getting Connected to Illinois State University ISUNET from Linux

So many of are going to visit ISU and use your students' WiFi network! Thanks for letting us know another bit of useless information!

Oh DarkDuck,

It is as much a short editorial about the ignorance of large institutions as it is a tutorial. Posting it on Lxer will also register it on Google a bit higher - meaning future students going to the Uni using Linux will be able to find the article easier. Not to mention a good deal of other University across the US (and outside) use a similar system for logging onto wireless.

~Jeff

Thanks for letting us know another bit of useless information!

There is no such thing as useless information even if it's only one person seeking it. It did not apply to you hence you deem it worthless. Others like myself do not, so assigning the whole worth value to something based on your need or lack of need is a bit narrow.

I went through the VERY same thing this last week when I took my daughter to Texas Tech to move into her dorm. Fortunately, Tech does provide information on connecting Linux wireless but does not officially support it. sounds like almost the exact same setup Jeff had to go through. And no, there is no excuse for any college not to have SOME publication or documentation on connecting any operating system wireless. You might want to take a look at this Jeff and see if it saves you some work.

http://www.depts.ttu.edu/ithelpcentral/solutions/wireless/in...

Not to absolve Texas Tech for shirking their responsibilities, but at least they have a LUG (good for them).

Unlike the olden days when Universities were places of higher learning, these days they're really nothing more than big businesses, and operate much the same way, with little regard for knowledge, and replacing that instead with corporate dogma.

Grishnakh - If that's truly the case, then why are faculty in my program getting grief for a too low CPA exam passing rate?

Methinks you paint with too broad a brush.

How many of the students pass or fail should not be tied to the professor that teaches the class. A bad student will almost always fail regardless of the teacher and a good student will almost always pass regardless of the teacher.

You want to see how well putting blame on the teacher for low grades works - then look at the USA public education system for K-12 and the sorry state it is in.

~Jeff

i strongly disagree with the first part of your statement.

bad teachers can make good students fail more often than bad students. if good students are demotivated because the teacher doesn't reward their effort and they will stop learning and become worse than bad students who are used to that situation. on the other hand a good teacher can even motivate bad students and help them to make a better effort and ultimately become better.

education rises and falls with the teacher.

on the other hand, i agree that putting blame on teachers for bad grades does nothing to improve the situation. the blame needs to go to the teacher education system that produces those bad teachers in the first place.

I do not agree with your broad brush characterisation. Some universities have become very focussed on money making and the quality has suffered. In the main however those institutions were not very good in the first place that is why they are money hungry. Good universities realise that in order to get parents to cough up the fees (which are high at good places) they have to offer a decent education. US universities are widely rated as the best in the world for a reason: Because the best schools are actually highly focussed on quality. This focus means that the money looks after itself. There are exceptions to this of course but if you choose a school rated in the top 50 internationally you will get a very good education usually and as a result your employment prospects will be high.