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    Hello,

    I recently upgrade my Windows Mobile phone to WM6. Since then, I can no longer connect to my network at home. The network has a hidden ssid, uses wpa2-psk with aes.

    I wonder if there are minimum requirements for a wpa2 shared key; currently it is 8 characters (all a-z). I can get the wm6 device to start attempting a connection, but it fails. I have no clue on how to start debugging this...

    Jörg
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    Originally posted by VJ View Post
    Hello,

    I recently upgrade my Windows Mobile phone to WM6. Since then, I can no longer connect to my network at home. The network has a hidden ssid, uses wpa2-psk with aes.

    I wonder if there are minimum requirements for a wpa2 shared key; currently it is 8 characters (all a-z). I can get the wm6 device to start attempting a connection, but it fails. I have no clue on how to start debugging this...

    Jörg

    While I don't know about your phone... I have discovered in the course of troubleshooting many wireless devices that WPA, especially WPA2, is a real crapshoot.
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    • #3
      Werid...if I set the IP address (+ subnet + gateway + dns + ...) manualy, it works. So it is not getting an ip adres.
      When I choose to get an ip address from DHCP, there is a read only ip address box. Oddly, this shows a number composed of 4 groups of 4 hex values. Could it be expecting to get an IPv6 address?


      Jörg
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      • #4
        I fooled around with it some more, and now it appears to work...

        The joys of (wireless) networking...
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        • #5
          I think I found the issue: I also had the profile of an adhoc network. Apparently, this adhoc network uses IPv6, causing the network card to only allow IPv6 adresses. As my wifi is IPv4, the wm6 device never gets an IP number.

          Removing the adhoc profile made it work.


          Jörg
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