ejohansson.se » wii http://ejohansson.se Random bits about Linux, programming, computers and occasionally other stuff. Sun, 18 Apr 2010 20:23:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Wii and Netgear WNR834B http://ejohansson.se/archives/2008/12/20/wii-and-netgear-wnr834b/ http://ejohansson.se/archives/2008/12/20/wii-and-netgear-wnr834b/#comments Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:44:23 +0000 Erik Johansson http://ejohansson.se/?p=276 I recently had a lot of problems connecting my Nintendo Wii wireless to my girlfriend’s Netgear router (WNR834B). The router was configured to use WPA-PSK [TKIP] + WPA2-PSK [AES] with a fairly long pass phrase (ASCII characters). It worked very well with my iBook (Mac OS X) and worked most of the time with my girlfriend’s laptop (Windows Vista). But it seemed like Windows used the WPA variant instead of WPA2. It just didn’t connect when forcing it to use WPA2. And the Wii would only connect if we turned encryption off. Not acceptable!

We tried many things to get the Wii to connect, without any success. In a last attempt we tried changing the pass phrase to a 64 characters long hexadecimal pass phrase. That did the trick. Both the Wii and both laptops now connect without any problem. So if you are having problems connecting your Wii to the wireless network, try changing the pass phrase to consist of hexadecimal characters (0-9, A-F) only. For WPA/WPA2 it must be exactly 64 characters long.

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