WPA2???

Why does my network login keep switching to WPA even though I set it at WPA2 personal?

Leopard has also been causing problems for my wireless connectivity speed...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1326033&tstart=45

G5DP2.5/15"2.4ghzMBP/G415"1.67/G412"1.33/G4 Quicksilver/4g40giPod/nano RED/20ACD, Mac OS X (10.5.1), I love my macs...I hate sofware bugs...

Posted on Jan 6, 2008 11:31 AM

20 replies

Jan 21, 2008 3:57 AM in response to Cardiakke

agrCtlRSSI: -57
agrExtRSSI: 0
agrCtlNoise: -85
agrExtNoise: 0
state: running
op mode: station
lastTxRate: 54
maxRate: 54
lastAssocStatus: 0
802.11 auth: open
link auth: wpa2-psk
BSSID: ------
SSID: -----
MCS: -1
channel: 11

Ok, it says its WPA2 here but not in the other spot a user would normally want to see it...

Side note:
Also, this data makes it seem that something else other then the airport is capping my speed, only the speed is only capped via wireless, and fine via ethernet...uuughh

Jan 24, 2008 11:22 AM in response to KYarbrough

Not quite. I have run into this problem too, only to find out that if the machine wakes from sleep, it tries to reconnect as WPA. The problem stems from a bug in the Network preference pane. It's easy enough to fix, though. In Terminal.app type:

sudo nano /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist

Search for the string "WPA Personal" (it occurs twice) and replace it with "WPA2 Personal". Ta-da, it's fixed. I haven't tried to patch the Network preference pane to fix the problem, and I'm not sure that I'm allowed to. If anyone would like a script to apply the fix, I'd be happy to oblige.

Feb 11, 2008 3:50 PM in response to Cobalt Jacket

I just updated to 10.5.2 and this is still an issue...

Feb 11, 2008 5:06 PM in response to Cobalt Jacket

Thanks for getting an answer, I figured this was just a small bug related to the notification of the WPA method and not the actual connection mechanism.

Feb 11, 2008 5:07 PM in response to J D McIninch

I tried this and as soon as I made any other adjustments to the networking within the preferences, the file was clobbered again and my changes were lost.

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WPA2???