Can't connect to wifi - driving me insane.

WayneL

I feel your pain. I'm in a similar situation.

Onion will connect to:
Apple Airport Extreme with no security

Onion won't connect to:
Apple Airport Extreme with any kind of security
Cox-supplied home wifi router with WPA
Commercial-grade wifi at work with security
Commercial-grade wifi at work with no security
Random Netgear router I have laying around

Every time someone brings up this problem, the answer is always more questions: "Does the SSID have any special characters? Are you using any special characters in the password?"

How about this for an answer: It doesn't matter! If my laptop can connect to a wifi signal, I expect the Onion to connect to the signal, too. Clearly one is correctly following the specifications (the laptop) and one is not (the Onion).

I can only hope this is going to be fixed in the next firmware release, like the SD Card fiasco. Though even that isn't 100% yet.

And while they're at it, how about fixing this terrible forum software? Until just this week it would crash Safari on even a very powerful Mac. It's still not possible to reply to messages on an iPhone because the textarea is larger than the screen. I know Chrome is all the rage among the nerds these days, but you know what else is pretty cool? Usability. Cross-browser compatibility. Testing.

If I built a web site like this at work, I'd be fired.

Luciano S.

@WayneL said in Can't connect to wifi - driving me insane.:

And while they're at it, how about fixing this terrible forum software? Until just this week it would crash Safari on even a very powerful Mac. It's still not possible to reply to messages on an iPhone because the textarea is larger than the screen. I know Chrome is all the rage among the nerds these days, but you know what else is pretty cool? Usability. Cross-browser compatibility. Testing.
If I built a web site like this at work, I'd be fired.

This is a tool from nodebb if you do research there you might could do in the "water cooler" category a new request and maybe help that we get a better configuration to use it also with a mobile device.

Btw. we as clients to have the choice, look for better products and companies or hep them to get better

Martin Wiedmeyer

On the bright side, some of us can connect.
I have had no issues connecting my Omega2+ to my AES encrypted WiFi network that uses an ASUS RT-AC66U running asuswrt-Merlin 380.63.
My WPA Pre-Shared key is 8 characters, all alpha.

What router firmware and version are you running, please?

dr_jkl

@Martin-Wiedmeyer I'm glad yours works. Mine doesn't. It's hard not to be a little irritated with the fact that I kickstarted a fancy paperweight. That said, I want to help diagnose whatever has gone wrong so that it can be fixed and can be used.

Martin Wiedmeyer

@dr_jkl You may want to answer my questions.
What router firmware and version are you running, please?
Have you done any packet captures to see where the authentication negotiation fails?

dr_jkl

@Martin-Wiedmeyer Further up the thread has the info; Microtik CRS109-8G-1S-2HnD - it's running the latest firmware. I hadn't thought of the packet capture because I'm not sure anything is actually negotiating, but let me try it and see.

dr_jkl

@Martin-Wiedmeyer As far as I am able to tell, it doesn't even try associating. I am going to investigate further when everyone else goes to sleep

WereCatf

@dr_jkl I was looking at your wireless-config, and one thing I noticed is that when I used the official firmware, it added option ApCliEncrypType 'AES' in wifi-iface, ie. this is kinda the config it produced for me:


config wifi-device 'ra0'
	option type 'ralink'
	option mode '9'
	option channel 'auto'
	option txpower '100'
	option ht '20'
	option country 'US'
	option disabled '0'

config wifi-iface
	option device 'ra0'
	option network 'wlan'
	option mode 'ap'
	option encryption 'psk2'
	option key '12345678'
	option ApCliEnable '1'
	option ApCliAuthMode 'WPA2PSK'
	option ApCliEncrypType 'AES'
	option ssid 'Omega-616B'
	option ApCliSsid 'PUTYOUROWNSSIDHERE'
	option ApCliPassWord 'PUTYOURPASSWORDHERE'

config wifi-config
	option ssid 'PUTYOUROWNSSIDHERE'
	option encryption 'WPA2PSK'
	option key 'PUTYOURPASSWORDHERE'

I don't see any other meaningful difference. Just for the sakes of curiosity, add that option and see if it makes any difference?

Martin Wiedmeyer

@dr_jkl I am talking about looking at the WIFI packets before negotiation occurs.

I believe you are using a Mac, from what I see above...

https://supportforums.cisco.com/document/75221/wireless-sniffing-using-mac-os-x-106-and-above

dr_jkl

@Martin-Wiedmeyer All I see when I do that are beacons from the Omega advertising the Omega-76EB network.
0_1487542455135_omega.pcapng

Either I am doing something wrong (possible, I don't use wireshark much) or the Omega isn't even trying.

(EDIT: references to 'jkl-omega' is the default network it brings up; I renamed the Omega-76EB network so my roomate wouldn't freak out about something new :D)

dr_jkl

@WereCatf Tried this... no change.

Martin Wiedmeyer

@dr_jkl Are you using the native MacOS WiFi sniffing tools or WireShark alone?

dr_jkl

@Martin-Wiedmeyer I tried both ways; one with wireshark itself and then one using the native wifi monitor and opening the resultant packet capture in wireshark to grab anything from the Omega. As far as I can tell it never tries to associate.

kevin lefrank

@dr_jkl did you ever get through this ? I have to omega2+ and neither of them get access to the internet even though they can connect to every router I throw at them.

noxasch

I have problem to connect to any mobile hotspot (tried on both iphone and samsung hotspot) But able to connect to Router AP just fine. anyone got any solution ?