need help with setting up a radius server for cisco ap

[crazyone]

hi i jsut got a cisco aironet 1231g-a-k9 for a present and wanted to use wpa but to use it, it wants a radius server to athenicate to. i know i can set up the radius server on the access point but id rather use my server i already got. my question is is there any guides on how to setup a radius server for a cisco ap or something that will help me with a easy how to. any help would be great. thanks

[Steve413z]

do you have more than one access point?

if not you are better off using the access points server, more reliable

[crazyone]

no i only got the one for a present for getting my A+ cert. its jsut i perfer having it on my server sense with experience of my linksys ap the mroe i have running the less reliable it is. but havent ever used cisco till now so i guess it is alot differnt

[Steve413z]

cisco stuff tends to be pretty bullet proof (even though Linksys is cisco, but linksys stuff is pretty good, but cisco didn't start linksys, they bought them out)

[Steve413z]

check out "freeradius",
also check out "hostapd"

both are in synaptic

[crazyone]

ok ill look into freeradius or hostapd probly freeradius becuase i have foudn a guide that looks decent. if you know of a guide that is good guide that would be great.