Can't acquire network address when WPA enabled

20 Nov 2008 6:04 PM

Nickyxx5

I am setting up a wireless network with a Belkin router, my Sony Vaio laptop
running Windows XP, my husband's Macbook, my iPod Touch and a Wifi radio.

I set up the network with no security settings enabled and all the devices
were able to connect to it without a problem. I then enabled MAC address
filtering - again no problems. I then enabled WPA encryption and the
Macbook, the iPod and the Wifi radio were still able to connect to the
network, but I now can't get my laptop to do so.

I select my network from the list of available networks and am prompted to
enter the WPA key. The computer then tells me to wait while it connects to
the network and says that it is acquiring a network address. After a minute
or so, this process times out and the computer just stops trying to connect.
If I disable encryption from the router, the laptop connects without
difficulty. I don't understand why enabling WPA prevents the laptop from
acquiring a network address and connecting. All the laptop settings are set
to acquire an IP address automatically. I know that I am entering the
correct WPA key because it works for my three other wireless devices. I know
that the laptop is WPA compatible because I had it running wirelessly on a
WPA encrypted network in my old house (albeit with a different router as I
was on cable broadband rather than ADSL then).

Please can anyone enlighten me?

Thanks in advance.

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Nickyxx5

20 Nov 2008 7:20 PM

Jim

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"Nickyxx5" <Nicky***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E55F0FA8-25C5-417F-A932-1CFEED174F5C@microsoft.com...
>I am setting up a wireless network with a Belkin router, my Sony Vaio
>laptop
> running Windows XP, my husband's Macbook, my iPod Touch and a Wifi radio.
>
> I set up the network with no security settings enabled and all the devices
> were able to connect to it without a problem. I then enabled MAC address
> filtering - again no problems. I then enabled WPA encryption and the
> Macbook, the iPod and the Wifi radio were still able to connect to the
> network, but I now can't get my laptop to do so.
>
> I select my network from the list of available networks and am prompted to
> enter the WPA key. The computer then tells me to wait while it connects
> to
> the network and says that it is acquiring a network address. After a
> minute
> or so, this process times out and the computer just stops trying to
> connect.
> If I disable encryption from the router, the laptop connects without
> difficulty. I don't understand why enabling WPA prevents the laptop from
> acquiring a network address and connecting. All the laptop settings are
> set
> to acquire an IP address automatically. I know that I am entering the
> correct WPA key because it works for my three other wireless devices. I
> know
> that the laptop is WPA compatible because I had it running wirelessly on a
> WPA encrypted network in my old house (albeit with a different router as I
> was on cable broadband rather than ADSL then).
>
> Please can anyone enlighten me?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> Nickyxx5

It usually takes me at least three shots to get he key correct. That has
happened when I had the laptop next to the desktop which was displaying the
key in the router.
Jim

21 Nov 2008 1:44 PM

Nickyxx5

Thanks for taking the trouble to reply, but believe me I've had more than 3
goes at entering the password. I cannot believe that in the scores of
attempts I've made, I haven't got the password right once. Even if I type
the password out so I can see it's correct and then paste it in, I'm still
getting this problem. Can connect fine when no encryption is enabled, as
soon as I enable encryption, the laptop can't acquire an IP address. All
other devices on the network can cope perfectly with the encryption. This
laptop has worked on an encrypted network before.

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Nickyxx5

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"Jim" wrote:

>
> "Nickyxx5" <Nicky***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E55F0FA8-25C5-417F-A932-1CFEED174F5C@microsoft.com...
> >I am setting up a wireless network with a Belkin router, my Sony Vaio
> >laptop
> > running Windows XP, my husband's Macbook, my iPod Touch and a Wifi radio.
> >
> > I set up the network with no security settings enabled and all the devices
> > were able to connect to it without a problem. I then enabled MAC address
> > filtering - again no problems. I then enabled WPA encryption and the
> > Macbook, the iPod and the Wifi radio were still able to connect to the
> > network, but I now can't get my laptop to do so.
> >
> > I select my network from the list of available networks and am prompted to
> > enter the WPA key. The computer then tells me to wait while it connects
> > to
> > the network and says that it is acquiring a network address. After a
> > minute
> > or so, this process times out and the computer just stops trying to
> > connect.
> > If I disable encryption from the router, the laptop connects without
> > difficulty. I don't understand why enabling WPA prevents the laptop from
> > acquiring a network address and connecting. All the laptop settings are
> > set
> > to acquire an IP address automatically. I know that I am entering the
> > correct WPA key because it works for my three other wireless devices. I
> > know
> > that the laptop is WPA compatible because I had it running wirelessly on a
> > WPA encrypted network in my old house (albeit with a different router as I
> > was on cable broadband rather than ADSL then).
> >
> > Please can anyone enlighten me?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> > --
> > Nickyxx5
> It usually takes me at least three shots to get he key correct. That has
> happened when I had the laptop next to the desktop which was displaying the
> key in the router.
> Jim
>
>
>

24 Nov 2008 11:10 AM

hognoxious

I really doubt you're entering the password wrong three times. The
chances of you AND me doing it is even less.

I'm having a similar problem:

I have a D-Link DSL G604T. Old status: Hidden SSID, Access control on
(allow mode), all the known MACS entered. WEP security. Two
machines, both (apparently identical) IBM T21s running XP Pro SP2
connect with no problems.

Acquired a Nokia E71 and a Asus EEE 1000B, added their MACs to the
list - no problem. The Asus runs XP home SP 3, the E71 is Symbian.

Decided to update to WPA. Set the preshared key on the router and all
hell breaks loose; neither IBM will connect. One sets the access
point to off (with a redline through it) immediately after I change
the settings (or even delete and recreate it) in advanced settings. I
don't believe it has even attempted to connect at that point. It's as
if it's put a curse on the name.

At one point neither IBM would even connect through a wired ethernet
connection. Again, the Asus is fine with this.

I tried unhiding the SSID and disbling MAC access control. No help.

I managed to get one of the IBMs working (but at this point I was so
annoyed I don't know what I did). The other will connect but only if
I set a static IP. Otherwise it hangs waiting for a netwrok address.
In this case it can't connect externally since it doesn't pick up the
ISPs DNS. I could set that manually too, but then why have DHCP?

Seems to me this must be a problem with XP Pro, since XP home works
OK. Now if it's the case that SP2 doesn't support WPA, why is the
option there and not either hidden or greyed out?

24 Nov 2008 3:12 PM

Jim

"hognoxious" <hognoxious.kos***@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:cd71d4d6-5495-4043-9dba-417826a31ba4@j35g2000yqh.googlegroups.com...
>I really doubt you're entering the password wrong three times. The
> chances of you AND me doing it is even less.
>

<snip>
I didn't mean that the third time will be the charm. I meant that it took
me three tries before I got it right. It may take him many more times or
fewer times. In any case, it is quite hard to get the key set correctly.

Jim

4 Jan 2009 9:05 PM

hognoxious

On Nov 24 2008, 4:12 pm, "Jim" <j...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> "hognoxious" <hognoxious.kos***@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:cd71d4d6-5495-4043-9dba-417826a31ba4@j35g2000yqh.googlegroups.com...>I really doubt you're entering the password wrong three times. The
> > chances of you AND me doing it is even less.
>
> <snip>
> I didn't mean that the third time will be the charm.

Well I didn't think you did.

> I meant that it took
> me three tries before I got it right. It may take him many more times or
> fewer times. In any case, it is quite hard to get the key set correctly.

Except we've pretty much established that wasn't the problem; we both
seem to have entered it OK in the other devices. Perhaps some people
aren't so clumsy?

In any case, your answer was about as useful as suggesting we trun it
off and back on again. And frankly, rather patronising.

FWIW, I reverted to WEP like I had before with one difference - the
SSID is no longer hidden.
One of the IBMs (which connected OK before) still reds out the AP when
I create it in the advanced tab, and it doesn't appear on available
networks.

It's like the previous status - WPA and/or hidden SSID - is stored
somewhere and it doesn't even try.

24 Nov 2008 8:07 PM

Phillip Windell

"Nickyxx5" <Nicky***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4D12FC1D-39BE-416D-B169-DF980C3E7992@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for taking the trouble to reply, but believe me I've had more than
> 3
> goes at entering the password. I cannot believe that in the scores of
> attempts I've made, I haven't got the password right once. Even if I type
> the password out so I can see it's correct and then paste it in, I'm still
> getting this problem. Can connect fine when no encryption is enabled, as
> soon as I enable encryption, the laptop can't acquire an IP address. All
> other devices on the network can cope perfectly with the encryption. This
> laptop has worked on an encrypted network before.

There are 4 different WPA's

Make sure you choose one that all your devices can agree on

WPA-TKIP
WPA-AES
WPA2-TKIP
WPA2-AES

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Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com

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