DD-WRT has the option of setting the WiFi mode to "WPA/WPA2" and "TKIP/AES"
Set it to those settings for best compatibility. On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 6:35 PM, John F. Eldredge <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/21/2017 6:23 PM, Chris McQuistion wrote: > > Maybe make sure your router is using WPA/WPA2 and TKIP/AES and then try > again. > > On Sat, Oct 21, 2017 at 5:08 PM, John F. Eldredge <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On 10/21/2017 5:00 PM, John F. Eldredge wrote: >> >>> I purchased some WiFi-controlled light switches recently, and have spent >>> several hours today trying to set up a separate SSID on my home router for >>> the WiFi devices, as a security measure. I am running DD-WRT v24-sp2 on a >>> Linksys E1200 v2 router. The problem I run into is that, whenever I try to >>> connect to the secondary SSID, my phone tells me that the password is >>> incorrect, even though I made sure the password I entered matches what I >>> set up for that SSID. I can connect to the primary SSID without any >>> problems. Does anyone have any suggestions? >>> >>> >>> Further testing has revealed that I can connect to it fine if I set it >> to not have a password. Setting a password (and using WPA2 security) >> results in the "incorrect password" error. It is definitely a DD-WRT bug, >> rather than a hardware issue. > > > I verified that my router is using WPA2 Personal and TKIP. On the phone > side, there is no way to specify that; I suppose it queries the router when > it tries to connect. I can connect to the physical interface without a > problem (it is also using WPA2 Personal and TKIP), and I can connect to the > virtual interface if I set its security to "None", but trying to connect to > it with it using WPA2 Personal results in the phone displaying > "authenticating" for about half a second, then popping up a dialog box that > says I entered the wrong password, even though I entered the correct > password. I have also posted a message on the DD-WRT forum about this issue. > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/ > group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
