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Raspberry pi wpa_supplicant can't connect on a specific wifi. CTRL-EVENT-ASSOC-REJECT status_code = 16

I'm having trouble connecting to a specific wifi using raspberry pi. Here is the output when I check /var/log/syslog: Jun 19 09:44:52 raspberrypi wpa_supplicant[447]: wlan0: Trying to associate with ...
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Can I tell DD-WRT to allow certain devices to connect without encryption?

I've got a Linksys router running DD-WRT and a crazy long passcode. My Canon printer used to be connected over Wi-Fi before adding the WPA. Does anyone know an easier way to connect this thing ...
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Hardware solution to bridge EAP AKA to WPA-Personal

I am not sure if bridging is the correct term for my problem but here it is. In my residence we have an EAP AKA (WPA-Enterprise) Wi-Fi network requiring username and password to be entered in order ...
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Multi-function printer losing wireless connectivity

My Richo MP C2550 multi-function printer is losing wireless connectivity. It is hooked up wirelessly to my home router for printing from two Mac computers at home. About half the time we can't ...
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Connecting to a WPA network in Linux with a USB dongle

I'm trying to connect my computer to a wireless network in Linux Mint. I used the Windows Wireless Driver program to load the Windows XP drivers for my USB dongle, a Cisco / Linksys AE1200. After that ...
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No Field for Pre Shared Key in Group Policy

I am attempting to configure group polocy (Windows 2008 R2) to issues a WPA Pre shared Key on client login. Through Group Policy I can setup WPA and select PSK (Along with TKIP) But there's not ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 suddenly cannot connect to WPA2/WPA Personal protected connection. Windows 7 can

I have a laptop with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. I have a Cisco E1200 and when I set it up, it created 2 SSIDs. Let's name them: MyConnection (WPA/WPA2 personal), and MyConnection-Guest (no ...
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PTK and GTK where are they stored?

So I know for unicast traffic PTK is used to encrypt and obtain ciphertext; and for multicast traffic GTK is used to encrypt and obtain ciphertext. I know PTK is produced at a 4 way handshake, and ...
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How can I get Ubuntu 20.04.5 to connect to a hybrid WPA2/WPA3 network on an early 2015 MacBook Pro?

I've looked at various questions here but in my situation, my WiFi is working on my early 2015 MacBook Pro on Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS. The issue I'm running into is Ubuntu won't connect to hybrid WPA2/WPA3 ...
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Arch Linux: Using wpa_supplicant to connect to wifi

I was in the middle of switching desktop environments, so networkmanager had just been uninstalled, everything was fine because its instance was still running in the background. But I was with a ...
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Windows 10 Slow boot time. Try To debug using Windows Performance Analyzer

I recently upgraded my PC. I was happy that everything is working and working fast with no errors apart from the long boot time. Though this is a small price for me to pay I'd rather try and fix this ...
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How to know what type of security a particular Wi-Fi is using, without connecting?

As we know, Wi-Fi APs can make use of different encryption schemes such as WEP, WPA, and WPA2. How can we detect this without connecting to the AP? In other words, I want to know that what type of ...
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Windows 8.1 - slow boot, long session init

My laptop usually starts for 30 seconds. But in the last two months something happened. Now it boots always for 120 seconds. I looked into Event viewer and I found that the first slow boot was in 11th ...
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Modifying WPA2 Protocol

I have flashed OpenWRT onto my Raspberry Pi Model 3B+ and was wondering if it is possible to modify how WPA2 works for example like changing the AES encryption into my own encryption algorithm or ...
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USB WiFi adapter keeps dropping connection?

I have a headless Fedora Linux box that I'm trying to get an Alfa AWUS036H USB wireless adapter to work with. I'm trying to connect to my own wireless network (an Actiontec router supplied by my ISP). ...
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Windows 8.1 - Enable WPA/TKIP

I need to join a WPA/TKIP authenticated network but Microsoft in their wisdom removed the ability to do this through the "Manually connect to a wireless network" GUI. I've been attempting to write ...
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OpenVPN causes WLAN/WiFi to disconnect in Linux?

If I configure my Wireless network on start up (wpa_supplicant & dhclient), the connection is fine until I launch OpenVPN. At which point the wireless interface disassociates (not until the ...
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Local access only to router when encryption enabled

I have a Wireless Huawei HG520b Router and a Toshiba Satellite laptop. They can connect fine via ethernet, and the router has a connection to the internet no problem. But if I try to connect the ...
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Decrypting WPA with wireshark

Hi I want to decrypt my WPA packets which i gathered by sniffing with airodump-ng. The problem is that even after I have the 4-way handshake packets (they are correct) i don't know how to extract the ...
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Connect to wifi on boot Beagle Bone Black ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Invalid argument

I'm trying to configure a Beagle Bone Black to connect directly to an access point during boot. I can manually bring up wifi connection with connmanctl. This works, but always loses connection after ...
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