Yesterday my new Asus Eee PC 1005ha arrived which was nice, started it up, all was good, everything worked until I tried to connect to my wireless router.
It's running windows xp sp3.
If I go into the Wireless Network Connection list then it's shown as WANADOO-F136, Security enabled wireless network (WPA) with a full signal.
When I try to connect it asks for the network key, which I give. It's made of capital letters and numbers and is printed in the format:
XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XXXX XX
I entered it like:
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
with caps lock on, no luck. With caps lock off, no luck. Tried including the spaces with caps lock both on and off, no luck.
The wireless card it has is an Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter.
In the "advanced settings" (as seen on the wireless network list window) under the tab Wireless Networks I have the "Use windows to configure my wireless network settings" box ticked, as there appears to be no separate control panel to do it without using windows. I have tried unchecking this box with no luck.
In the WANADOO-F136 properties, Network Authentication is set to WPA-PSK and the Data-encryption is set to TKIP which is the same settings as my parents vista laptop.
When I try and connect to the network after typing in the key, it just says "Waiting for the network..." for ages, then it dissapears without an error message or anything, it completely fails to connect :(
Please help.
Thanks.
Also, I've already tried restarting my router.
No responses..?
Turn off WPA and see if you can connect.
I'm going to go to a free wifi zone tommorow and see if I can connect to that. Since my parents laptops can connect to it fine it's a problem with either the eee pc or the settings on it.
Use a recovery tool (Cain&Abel) on your parents laptop, and see what your wireless password is. Copy, to make sure you got it right.
[QUOTE=h2ooooooo;17086908]Use a recovery tool (Cain&Abel) on your parents laptop, and see what your wireless password is. Copy, to make sure you got it right.[/QUOTE]
I'm sure it's right, I have the original print of it here.
I've typed it so many times now I can remember it, and it's 26 characters long...
I always check against it though and I'm 100% sure I've typed it correct.
Just to make sure, can you write the whole code to notepad, and then copy paste it to the Wireless prompt?
most netbooks can't connect to encrypted networks, i had to disable WPA to connect to mine.
Also, 2 solutions that seem to work, googling the problem:
[quote=http://forums.techguy.org/networking/537533-waiting-network-forever.html]If JohnWill's steps don't get you going, disable encryption on the router, connect, enable encryption again, and try again to connect.[/quote]
Suggestion 2
Change channels that the wireless interface uses.
I had some problems like that with EEEPc 1000HGo. I ended up setting authentication to WPA-PSK, encryption to AES and entering network key in some really weird way. I don't know, I think I entered the hex version or something like that.
Or maybe you're typing in the hex version of the password (or something like that). If you have access to the router, see what is it set like.
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