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    Problem with WPA and Leopard.

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Zbingu, Nov 30, 2007.

  1. Zbingu

    Zbingu Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi,

    I recently updated to Leopard and the startup application to connect to a network(the one that pop up upon detecting it, not in network preference) wont take WPA password and simply say something like invalid security. Is there something i'm missing somewhere or a fix? It work fine if I select it everywhere else...

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    Zbingu, Nov 30, 2007
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    Bump...

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    Zbingu, Dec 1, 2007
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    enter260 Notebook Consultant

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    check to see if you can connect to your router with another computer. i'm using wpa and it's working fine.
     
    enter260, Dec 1, 2007
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    Is your SSID invisible? I've found that the Mac has problems not connecting to my wireless network if I don't broadcast the SSID. And this is a Mac OS problem because it works perfectly fine on the Windows side.
     
    saturnotaku, Dec 2, 2007
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  5. Zbingu

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    I actually can connect to my wpa network if i select it in the network preference but it doesn't work from the pop up screen that come up when i open the computer... which is... well weird... It also work fine in win xp on the same computer.

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    Zbingu, Dec 2, 2007
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    I have zero experience with Leopard, but I've had similar oddities with Tiger for my WPA2 connection.

    I travel a lot, and every so often (I have yet to discover a specific catalyst) when I get home my Macbook won't connect to my router. If I specifically navigate to the network connection and manually tell it to connect it would, but it wouldn't do it automatically.

    The only way I got it to work right again was to completely delete the wifi profile for my home network connection and recreate it. After doing that, it would seem to behave again.

    It's happened three times now in the nearly ten months I've had my Macbook; so it's not a big deal really, just annoying.
     
    surfacewound, Dec 2, 2007
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