Gl-inet router says 'Wrong Key' on wifi repeater join

alzhao · 2022-08-13T06:54:38.784Z

Can you check if the 2.4G is set to H20?

I could another test but needs to do on Monday.

udogehrke · 2022-08-13T07:55:11.217Z

@alzhao Sorry, who do you mean with H20? Do you mean that the 2.4 Ghz hotspot of the router is set to 20 MHz (it is)? I’m using the router with standard settings after factory reset.

alzhao · 2022-08-13T09:20:29.984Z

Yes. Set the alarm 2.4G wifi to HT20.

udogehrke · 2022-08-14T18:14:14.246Z

@alzhao Sorry, alarm? What exactly do you mean? I set it like I wrote above

Thanks a lot!

alzhao · 2022-08-15T02:44:51.685Z

Sorry, typo on phone.

Set the 2.4G wifi to HT20. I also cannot get where the word “alarm” come from.

udogehrke · 2022-08-15T17:06:24.448Z

@alzhao Can’t find an option to set to “HT20”. Can only set Bandwidth to 2 MHz but I think that’s what you mean

alzhao · 2022-08-17T11:04:12.465Z

udogehrke:

Can only set Bandwidth to 2 MHz but I think that’s what you mean

Yes. That is what I mean.

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sixspeed · 2022-08-23T16:47:07.102Z

Wanted to join this thread as I got the ‘Wrong Key’ error today when using my GL-AR300M16 abroad for the first time.

The hotel WiFi I am trying to connect to and use via the repeater feature, has a # symbol in the password (as the first character). I can connect to the WiFi with a number of devices, but the GL-AR300M16 gives a ‘Wrong Key’ error when trying to connect.

I have seen mention of different firmware versions above to resolve issues with special chars. I am currently running 3.212. Is this a bug in this release?

Any advice would be welcomed if there is an option that will resolve this and get this working?

LupusE · 2022-08-23T17:38:00.749Z

If I remember right this is a FW 3.212 issue and should be solved in 3.215.
I’m only on a beryl, but I would give the beta a try: GL.iNet download center

I do think they are active at the 4 development for the newer devices, right now. Let’s hope the waiting will also bring FW 4.x for the AR300 devices

sixspeed · 2022-08-23T20:31:49.011Z

So I figured I’d try upgrading to the 3.215 beta and no luck. Did notice that when you try to input the password and are waiting for the error to come back, it kicks me off the AR300M16 WiFi hotspot (and the SSID disappears briefly) so looks like its causing some kind of exception that restarts the hotspot service.

alzhao · 2022-08-26T08:23:06.793Z

One problem for connecting to Unifi networks, when Unifi enabled “band steering” it will cause the mini router failed to connect as repeater on 2.4G. 5G is fine.

curator · 2022-08-26T10:47:24.210Z

Do you know why that is?
Is it the same on other devices, such as laptops or other things?

datan · 2022-08-28T15:55:46.125Z

hi
I’m facing this issue on MUDI 3.211 and 3.215.

I cannot connect to wifi 2.4g that has no password (after a long pause it says “wrong key”). 5g works fine (without password).

[ 1291.579966] device wlan1 entered promiscuous mode
[ 1293.946159] wlan-sta: authenticate with 78:8a:20:xx:xx:xx
[ 1293.959723] wlan-sta: send auth to 78:8a:20:xx:xx:xx (try 1/3)
[ 1294.064755] wlan-sta: send auth to 78:8a:20:xx:xx:xx (try 2/3)
[ 1294.174758] wlan-sta: send auth to 78:8a:20:xx:xx:xx (try 3/3)
[ 1294.284818] wlan-sta: authentication with 78:8a:20:xx:xx:xx timed out
[ 1294.584034] wlan-sta: authenticate with 78:8a:20:xx:xx:xx
[ 1294.597983] wlan-sta: send auth to 78:8a:20:xx:xx:xx (try 1/3)
[ 1294.704820] wlan-sta: send auth to 78:8a:20:xx:xx:xx (try 2/3)
[ 1294.814818] wlan-sta: send auth to 78:8a:20:xx:xx:xx (try 3/3)
[ 1294.924787] wlan-sta: authentication with 78:8a:20:xx:xx:xx timed out
[ 1296.115813] wlan-sta: authenticate with 78:8a:20:xx:xx:xx
[ 1296.129589] wlan-sta: send auth to 78:8a:20:xx:xx:xx (try 1/3)
[ 1296.234766] wlan-sta: send auth to 78:8a:20:xx:xx:xx (try 2/3)
[ 1296.344757] wlan-sta: send auth to 78:8a:20:xx:xx:xx (try 3/3)
[ 1296.454782] wlan-sta: authentication with 78:8a:20:xx:xx:xx timed out

alzhao · 2022-08-29T10:08:36.195Z

datan:

[ 1291.579966] device wlan1 entered promiscuous mode
[ 1293.946159] wlan-sta: authenticate with 78:8a:20:xx:xx:xx
[ 1293.959723] wlan-sta: send auth to 78:8a:20:xx:xx:xx (try 1/3)
[ 1294.064755] wlan-sta: send auth to 78:8a:20:xx:xx:xx (try 2/3)
[ 1294.174758] wlan-sta: send auth to 78:8a:20:xx:xx:xx (try 3/3)
[ 1294.284818] wlan-sta: authentication with 78:8a:20:xx:xx:xx timed out

I am very sure that this is caused by the “band steering” setting in the Unify network. It just stop reponding to your request on 2.4G, thus forcing you to connect 5G.

We will do a research how to solve such problems.

datan · 2022-08-29T10:22:55.486Z

thank you. why does it only affect these travel routers? other devices can connect well.

alzhao · 2022-08-29T10:27:14.767Z

datan:

other devices can connect well

What other devices? phones? They have both 2.4G and 5G, right?

The router can also connect via 5G as you said.

datan · 2022-08-29T10:31:01.047Z

laptops, ipad, phone devices. right now my phone is connected by 2.4G (I checked network connection).

sometimes the 5G signal is out of range and Mudi can only detect 2.4G, which it is unable to connect to.

datan · 2022-08-29T10:55:55.890Z

here’s the network properties from Windows 10.

SSID: ABCDEF
Protocol: Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n)
Security type: Open
Network band: 2.4 GHz
Network channel: 11
Link speed (Receive/Transmit): 144/144 (Mbps)
Link-local IPv6 address:
IPv4 address: 192.168.15.42
IPv4 DNS servers: 192.168.15.1
Manufacturer: Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc.
Description: Qualcomm Atheros QCA61x4A Wireless Network Adapter #2
Driver version: 12.0.0.722
Physical address (MAC): B4-A9-FC-xx-xx-xx

alzhao · 2022-08-29T11:02:44.359Z

OK. Thanks for the info. Let me check how I can set up and do some packete capturing

wcs2228 · 2022-08-29T16:38:37.327Z

Another possibility for not connecting to 2.4GHz wifi is that Protected Management Frames (PMF) may be enabled on the wifi access point.

I have a Unifi AP with Band Steering disabled and had problems connecting an old 2.4GHz-only travel router (not OpenWRT). I traced the problem to the PMF Required setting on the Unifi AP, but the old router does not have PMF support and PMF is mandatory for WPA3. Even for WPA2/WPA Mixed, the setting can only be PMF Optional, so I eventually had to turn off WPA3 and only have WPA2 with PMF Disabled on 2.4GHz, but not 5GHz.

Maybe the GL.iNet router has PMF support that can be enabled.

I do not work for and I do not have formal association with GL.iNet