The wireless network does not support the requested encryption method?

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Level 1

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The wireless network does not support the requested encryption method?

I'm unable to bring this older iBook onto a network which uses WPA-Personal. No matter what, even after bringing it up to date with all software, I receive the message "The wireless network (insert network_namehere) does not support the requested encryption method" - which is sort of silly considering I have numerous other machines connected via that requested encryption method.

Has anyone come across this, and with any solution? Thanks!

PowerBook G3 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on Jun 4, 2006 9:15 PM

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Answer 1

John Huber1

Level 6

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Jun 4, 2006 9:50 PM in response to FAA

Hi FAA,

The requirments for WPA are;

1 Mac OS X 10.3 or later
2 AirPort software version 3.3 or later for the AirPort Card (available via Software Update)
3 AirPort software version 3.2 or later for the AirPort Extreme Card (available via Software Update)

John

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Answer 2

iFelix

Level 8

35,155 points

Jun 5, 2006 3:28 AM in response to FAA

Are you using WPA2 Personal or WPA Personal?

The original Airport card hardware is not physically capable of connecting to a WPA2 Personal encrypted network, you can only use WPA Personal.

iFelix

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Answer 3

FAA Author

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Jun 5, 2006 1:43 PM in response to John Huber1

This iBook is up to date with all software - OS 10.4.6 and the latest AirPort version from Software Update. The error is the same before and after updates, and multiple restarts...

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Answer 4

FAA Author

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Jun 5, 2006 1:44 PM in response to iFelix

Just good old fashioned WPA-Personal.

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Answer 5

iFelix

Level 8

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Jun 5, 2006 2:40 PM in response to FAA

Are you using any other form of security such as MAC Address access control?

iFelix

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Answer 6

FAA Author

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Jun 5, 2006 6:27 PM in response to iFelix

I'm not... But digging around to see if there was anything else going on I did come across the solution (which was sort of staring me in the face the whole time):

The wireless network was set up as 802.11g only, and was thus not supporting the older AirPort card. Thank you for your replies, and thank you Apple for the incredibly misleading error message.

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Answer 7

Jun 5, 2006 6:54 PM in response to FAA

Thank you for posting back to let us know what the problem turned out to be.

It may help someone else.

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