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jmoya
Staff
Staff
Article Id 192532
Description
WPA2 encryption fails sometimes on Windows 8 implementation. To override this, it is recommended to change to WPA.

Scope
All FortiGates with VAPs with WPA/WPA2-Enterprise or WPA/WPA2-Personal encryption set.

Solution
On Windows 8 using WPA2-Enterprise

0) Go to command line, preferably Administrator.

1) C:\Windows\System32> cd \Users\<User>\Documents

2) C:\Users\<User>\Documents> netsh

3) netsh> wlan

4) netsh wlan> show profiles

5) delete profile name=<yournetwork>
Enclose the name of network within quotes, this is to ensure that you can cleanly set up the right profile. Do not close the netsh, it will be needed at a later stage.

6) Right click the connection icon in lower right corner > open Network and Sharing Center > Set up a new connection or network > Manually connect to a wireless network

7) Try to create a profile, and try to get as many details to correspond with your requirement. The rest we will edit in command line.

8) Do the same at the next screen. Edit Network settings > change all the parameters that you can, to match the requirement.

9) Finish. Move back to your netsh terminal

10) netsh wlan> show profile <profilename>
Without quotes this time. This should show your previous attempt at creating a profile in the GUI dialog boxes. In my case, it had WPA2 and AES. It has to become WPA and TKIP. Set authMode to userOnly.

11) netsh wlan> set profileparameter
displays a list of parameters with detailed options, just carefully examine the syntax.

12) netsh wlan> set profileparameter name=<profilename> authentication=wpa encryption=AES authMode=userOnly ****JUST FOR WPA2-Enterprise if not required, do not set authMode statement.




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