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I have troubles connecting to a wireless network using my Linux machine. My general settings work, so I can connect to other networks.

When I try to connect in Windows, I am asked for a PIN (which I don't know), but can circumvent this by clicking on a "enter WPA passcode instead" button. The passcode I have got works.

However, when I enter the same passcode in Linux I can not connect. I assume I should enter the "PIN" here as well. Is there a way to tell the network manager to connect the same way windows does?

Thanks for any hints

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Could you take a screen shot of windows asking for the PIN and post that? I've never heard of that behavior before. Are you referring to a WEP Key? – Huckle Feb 18 '12 at 15:51
I got it to work by disabling WPS, changing encryption from WPA2(AES) to WPA/WPA2, setting b/g instead of b/g/n, and restarting both the router and my computer. – user538603 Feb 19 '12 at 16:53
I'm glad you got your problem resolved. However, for my own curiosity, could you still post a screen shot of Windows asking for a PIN/having an Enter WPA Passcode Instead button? – Huckle Feb 19 '12 at 21:35
This sounds like the ill-named "Wi-Fi Protected Setup" feature. It's a 4+2 digit code (they say it's a 6 digit code, but they respond with success/fail after 4 digits, then another success fail after the last 2, reducing the keyspace from 10^6 to 10^4 + 10^2) used to allow semi smart appliances (e.g. Blu-Ray player) to connect to a Wi-Fi Router. Should ALWAYS be turned off. Reproduce the failure, do ls -rlt /var/log, and look at the ends of the recently changed log files. – waltinator Feb 20 '12 at 1:04

closed as too localized by Eric Carvalho, vasa1, hhlp, con-f-use, Chris Wilson Mar 24 at 11:34

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