Nokia 770 and WPA PSK - Problems setting up

[Titus]

Hi,

I am having problems setting up a WPA-PSK connection with my Nokia 770 and Buffalo WBR2-G54 router. There has been no problems with other devices with this router, but after several dozen retries, Nokia 770 simply refuses to connect to router.

I have tried :
- using DHCP and fixed IP-addresses
- in router: TKIP and AES
- in Nokia: with and without WPA2
- different PSKs
- different locations
- 802b only-, Mixed-, 802g only- modes in router


Luckily I can get connected with no encryption and WEP-encryption , but I would like to use WPA for obvious reasons.
Usually (normally using it with Windows XP laptop) this router is quite powerful, and I have excellent signal strength even outside the house.
With Nokia 770 (using WEP) signal strength gets poor ten meters from access point and dies outside the house. This signal strength issue is not a huge problem to me, but I would really like to use WPA PSK.
Any suggestions, please?

[Samuel]

[snip]
Luckily I can get connected with no encryption and WEP-encryption , but I would like to use WPA for obvious reasons.
[snip]
Any suggestions, please?

Are you seeing only one single AP when you scan ?

[Titus]

Are you seeing only one single AP when you scan ?

Yes, just one. Funny though, when I, in my desperation, made several connections ie. Connection 1, Connection 2 etc., when scanning available APs it showed me those previous connections in the available AP list.

[JPB]

I had a problem to connect to my Airport: for WPA the 770 asks 13 keys for the password. For some reason the airport had 20 keys. I changed the airport password and then it worked.
Don't think it is related to your problem but you never know.....

[Samuel]

Yes, just one.
This is a known bug. I have a fix in my local tree and hopefully it will make it to the next official release.
Sorry for the hassle, but you'll have to use WEP or open AP for now :-/

[Titus]

I had a problem to connect to my Airport: for WPA the 770 asks 13 keys for the password. For some reason the airport had 20 keys. I changed the airport password and then it worked.
Don't think it is related to your problem but you never know.....

At work right now, so I can't test it, but are you sure, that this feature is also in WPA? I also noticed this, when using WEP encryption.

[Titus]

This is a known bug. I have a fix in my local tree and hopefully it will make it to the next official release.
Sorry for the hassle, but you'll have to use WEP or open AP for now :-/

Thanks a lot for this information Samuel! It saves me from another "curse-filled configuration evening". Can you give any information on when the next official release is available?

[Samuel]

Can you give any information on when the next official release is available?
Unfortunately, I don't know about that.

[martymcr]

Hmm, sounds like we might have some Nokia representation on this board? Samuel do you work for Nokia, or would you rather not say?

[Samuel]

Hmm, sounds like we might have some Nokia representation on this board? Samuel do you work for Nokia, or would you rather not say?
I work for Nokia, and you will find many Nokia engineers on maemo-dev and maemo-users. So, nothing to be ashamed of ;-)

[Samuel]

This is a known bug. I have a fix in my local tree and hopefully it will make it to the next official release.
Sorry for the hassle, but you'll have to use WEP or open AP for now :-/
Just wanted to add that the known bug is the following: "Can't connect to WPA-PSK AP when there is only one AP around". Otherwise WPA should work fine.

[Samuel]

For those of you who might be interested, 45-8 release (latest official release as of 11/25) fixes that issue and others with WPA and WLAN in general.
Please upgrade your boxes ;-)

[centauria]

Got my 770 a couple of days ago and I have trouble connecting to my DI-624 router using WPA-PSK. After seeing this thread I thought that upgrading software would help, but alas, it still does not work with software version 45-8... I've tried pretty much all imaginable configurations in the router and 770, but it works only with WEP (and no encryption).

Being a tech dummy doesn't really help. When I try to connect with 770, my router logs say "authentication successful", so at least passkey shouldn't be the problem. :) Is there any way to debug this further or should I just accept the current state of affairs?

[Samuel]

Being a tech dummy doesn't really help. When I try to connect with 770, my router logs say "authentication successful", so at least passkey shouldn't be the problem. :) Is there any way to debug this further or should I just accept the current state of affairs?
Could you tell us which HW revision your AP is, and wich firmware it's running ?
Also, do you have the possibbility to sniff your 802.11 network ? That would be quite helpful. Many PCI and PCMCIA wifi cards allow you to do so...If so, please make a capture of the whole sequence: start it from the moment when you actually initiate the connection from your 770 and stop it 15-20 seconds later.