Turning RADIUS on broke AEBS WPA2

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Turning RADIUS on broke AEBS WPA2

I turned on RADIUS support in OS X Server by checking the box that says to enable wi-fi login. That popped up a message to allow settings to be changed on my AEBS router, which I did. Shortly thereafter, though, I changed my mind and decided to stick with the wi-fi password, instead of the user login version. When I unchecked the box to turn off the wi-fi login setting, no message came up to change the AEBS' settings. So, I manually went to the AEBS and switched from RADIUS to WPA2 Personal (which is what it had been before). Now, it won't let me save the password! It's giving me the following message:

Invalid value

The wireless password for a WPA Personal network must be between 8 and 63 characters in length. It may also be 64 hexadecimal characters.

The password I set is the same password I had previously been using - and it very well fits into the WPA2 password category.

I tried changing to WPA/WPA2 (which is NOT what I had before) - but it gives me the same error.

Please help - this is frustrating as heck!

Airport Extreme Base Station "N", firmware 7.6.4

Airport Utility 6.3.2

OS X Server, Mavericks

Firmware 7.6.4

Posted on Apr 12, 2014 10:50 PM

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lisfolks Author

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Apr 12, 2014 11:01 PM in response to lisfolks

Okay, so just for grins, I changed the password to '12345678', since the message said at least 8 characters. The AEBS then prompted me for restart without any error message.

Once the AEBS had restarted, I went back in and put the original password back. This time it prompted me to restart again in the normal way. Yay!

Once the network came back up, one device had to have the wi-fi password re-entered. Then, it and our other devices all came back online as normal. Yay!

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