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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Software Issues and Discussion => Topic started by: SteveH on November 22, 2017, 05:37:07 PM

Title: Wireless key too long?
Post by: SteveH on November 22, 2017, 05:37:07 PM

When I boot my X1000 into OS4.1FE1, I now see an AmigaDOS error message: "bad number".
This only happened since I upgraded my broadband router so that my wifi password now contains 12 characters instead of the previous 10. (I am using the flashed Prism2 driver).
Is the AmigaDOS error message related to the longer wifi password?
In order to boot without seeing the error, I have stopped using wifi and am using an Ethernet connection but I would like to switch back to wifi.
Does anyone know what is causing the error message to appear?

Title: Re: Wireless key too long?
Post by: kolla on November 23, 2017, 12:55:46 AM

Amiga and wifi is no-go, regardless. Use ethernet, and a wifi bridge device if you need wifi. For example this thing.

https://mikrotik.com/product/RBmAPL-2nD

Title: Re: Wireless key too long?
Post by: SteveH on November 29, 2017, 03:57:05 PM

@kolla: Well, I had being using wifi without problem on my X1000 for five or six years until the change of router. In fact, my understanding is that it is the X1000 ethernet which isn't fully functional, although this may have changed since I last checked.
In any event, does anyone know how to get wifi working again .....

Title: Re: Wireless key too long?
Post by: kolla on November 29, 2017, 10:50:40 PM

Things have changed, new standards have emerged, old standards have been proven flawed, gone through deprecation periods and been phazed out. Wifi today is different than what you had running. And Amiga keeps falling behind.

So what are you trying to use? What router do you have and what does it support? What does the driver of your Amiga wifi nic support? Are you using wpa_supplicant?

Title: Re: Wireless key too long?
Post by: psxphill on November 30, 2017, 08:47:32 AM

Quote from: SteveH;833485

Does anyone know what is causing the error message to appear?

I assume you were using WEP or WPA and now are using WPA2.

Or it might be that the old router you specified the hex key, but now you are using a key phrase that is used to generate a hex key.

The settings on your old and new router hold all the information you need to figure it out.

Title: Re: Wireless key too long?
Post by: Thomas on November 30, 2017, 11:45:34 AM

Quote from: SteveH;833485

Is the AmigaDOS error message related to the longer wifi password?

Could you show the command which fails?

Could you try the same command in a shell window with the password cut off after 10 characters?

If your password contains space characters you might have to surround the whole thing with quotation marks.

If your password contains quotation marks you might have to escape them with an asterisk.

Title: Solved: Wireless key too long?
Post by: SteveH on March 12, 2018, 10:58:53 AM

Thanks to Neil Cafferkey (author of Prism2 driver) I've now got wifi on my X1000 working again - I hadn't realised the wireless password was stored in ENVARC:
Now that's been changed, all is working perfectly.
Steve