Can't connect to wifi - driving me insane.

[Luciano S.]

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

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[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 ?