Intended Audience
This article is intended for current students, faculty, staff, and alumni who need access to the UM-Flint campus wireless (Wi-Fi) network.
Requirements
To connect your device to the university's wireless network, you will need your uniqname and current password. In addition, you will need to have a computer with wireless capability.
What is MFlint?
MFlint is a secure wireless network option available on the University of Michigan - Flint campus. Active faculty, staff, students, and alumni with a U-M uniqname and current password can connect to the MFlint network by connecting to the MSetup network first to configure their device. You cannot connect to MFlint directly before configuring your device.
MFlint is a more secure certificate-based connection. Once this configuration has been completed on the device, it can connect for a year before this process has to be repeated to be renewed.
To configure a Windows device to use MFlint:
Go to go.umflint.edu/MFlint to see the following screen:
Click on JoinNow to download the configuration file. Once the file is downloaded you will have to run this.
After the file is downloaded open it and you should see a window as shown below:
Click on Next to Configure. It will then go to the Authentication step where you will have to put in your credentials in a browser that will pop up:
After providing your username and password then clicking Login you will be prompted to DUO
After seeing this open your DUO app if it doesn’t automatically. Then click Approve
After putting in your uniqname and password it should go to connecting then issue a certificate on the device then join the network:
After this your device will be connected to the MFlint network and after this configuration you will be able to connect directly to MFlint in the future.
If you happen to see the following error the device has been configured successfully, but there is an issue on the device and you just need to connect directly to the MFlint wireless network on the device.
To configure a macOS device to use MFlint:
Go to go.umflint.edu/MFlint to see the screen below:
Click on JoinNow to download the configuration file. Once the file is downloaded you will have to run this.
After the file is downloaded open it and you should see a window as shown below:
Click on Next to Configure. It will then go to the Authentication step where you will have to put in your credentials in a browser that will pop up:
After providing your username and password then clicking Login you will be prompted to DUO
After seeing this open your DUO app if it doesn’t automatically. Then click Approve
After putting in your uniqname and password it should go to connecting then issue a certificate on the device then join the network. On macOS it may download the securew2 wrapper as shown below that you have to open to get the certificate as shown below. You will have to double click on the certificate then hit Install.
After this your device will be connected to the MFlint network and after this configuration you will be able to connect directly to MFlint in the future.
If you happen to see the following error the device has been configured successfully, but there is an issue on the device and you just need to connect directly to the MFlint wireless network on the device.
Additional Information
More information is available at the U-M Wifi site: U-M Net Wifi
Need additional information or assistance? Contact the ITS Service Center.