How to connect to an ieee stander wireless network in school

I am a student of UNM.
we can't get the wireless connection to our ece deperment if OSX is above 10.5.
we can get the connect under windows and linux but not Mac.
I did asked our IT about this issuse, thire answer was Apple didn't following ieee wireless stander on newer osx.
I tried all the solution on interstant including using iphone developer tools, but it doesn't work.
Is any possible that feture update can fix this problem?

That's a neat trick they used there, relying on IEEE standards, which never had any requirement for interoperability. Their wireless network, while IEEE standard, is not WiFi CERTIFIED as it still uses TKIP.
TKIP on WPA was an interim solution to WEP.
http://wifinetnews.com/archives/2010/06/say_goodbye_to_wep_and_tkip.html
You might send your IT department this link: http://osxdaily.com/2009/09/21/wireless-network-security-change-your-wpa-encrypt ion-from-tkip-to-aes/

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