WPA: 4-Way Handshake failed

Helmut Schaa helmut.schaa
Wed Nov 10 08:02:41 PST 2010


On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:21 PM,  <fberger at florian-berger.de> wrote:
> There's two MS Windows boxes running flawlessly with the access point.
> There is no MAC blocking or anything. But still "WPA: 4-Way Handshake
> failed - pre-shared key may be incorrect" - no idea why this happens.
>
> Any pointers where to start getting this to work?

Just a shot in the dark: does your psk contain any special characters?
I once had an issue with a really old AP which encoded the psk differently
than my client (I can't remember which character was causing problems).

Helmut



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