Wireless Password Re-Setup Issue

[johnathonm]

Hi,

I just reinstalled and setup from scratch the latest version of merlin. I erased the nvram and went through all the proper procedures. However, during setup, I used a generic password so my clients would not connect until I was through. Now that things are fully setup, I went to change the wpa pre-shared key and my devices won't take the password. I made sure I was typing it in properly and even tried it on some of the other channels.

Is this a bug? Do I have a case of the stupid again? Is there a way to manually set it via nvram or am I in the wrong place within the UI?

I really don't want to start over again, if I don't have too.

Any input or help is appreciated.

Thank you,

J

 

[ColinTaylor]

I went to change the wpa pre-shared key and my devices won't take the password.

Can you clarify what you mean by "my devices won't take the password". Are you saying that you have entered the new password into your phone/laptop/tablet but it won't connect to the router?

 

[Johnathon]

Hi Colin,

I tried on my phone, laptop and iPad, kindle, after I changed it from the trash password to our usual password in the wpa shared key section.

I am not sure what to do or what's going on.

I also reset the network settings on the iPad and iPhone as well as deleted the networks on the mac. All to no avail.

J

 

[ColinTaylor]

Have you tried putting the old password back on the clients and trying that, to see whether the old password is still in infect?

When setting the new password on the router you have to set and apply it in turn for both the 2.4GHz band and the 5GHz band. Did you do it for both bands or just one?

Is your new password particularly long or does is contain any non-alphanumeric characters?

 

[johnathonm]

Well it looks like it required a reboot to actually take effect.

I can only quote the IT crowd:

 

[RMerlin]

I often refer to the "Three R's" in the IT world of troubleshooting: Retry, Reboot, Reinstall.