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laptop sees my network but I can't connect
I've been trying for two weeks to get my laptop to connect to my network. Both TV, cell phone and Tablet connect just fine. My network shows up on the "available" Networks, but when I try to connect...
CondoCat wrote:
My Laptop is a 2016 HP Notebook. It has a Realtek RTL8188EE 801.11bgn Wi-Fi adapter which is up to date and working fine.
I have basically the same laptop with the same adapter, that had the same problem with wifi6. The four solutions usually mentioned on this community are:
- Be sure the Realtek driver is the most current version.
- Activating and renaming the SSID of one of the 2.4GHz channels so that it is not name shared (basically allowing non-WiFi6 access)
- Lowering the transmission mode to an older standard (example, ax/g to n/g)
- Lowering the encryption (WPA) to an older standard (example, WPA3 to WPA2)
Back in the days of 54g, once ran into an issue where the wifi card on a laptop was not converting the passphrase to the proper hex values. Had to download a tool from the vendor that would generate hex for specific brands like Linksys and such.
If your wifi router can display the actual hex, can give that a shot... will be long, like 63 characters.
A quick Google search found a similar tool at Wireshark for generating the hex version of pre-shared keys (PSK). Could give it a shot if you can't find the hex version of the passphrase:
