Forget WiFi Networks

[SimpleSi]

I've a strange one

newish tosh laptop

won't pick up IP address on curric network via wifi and says

 

it will connected happly to admin network

 

So I'm thinking that maybe its remembered the wrong wifi password

 

I went to remove the curric network from list of wifi networks but there are none in the list to delete

 

How do I get it to forget ANY networks

 

(removing device and re-installing doesn't seem to work either!)

 

Simon

[mikeprice]

Is it controlled by a group policy? - if so you will have to get rid of this first

[NB9457]

CMD:

 

netsh wlan show profiles

 

 

netsh command could be helpful and the command above will show all the profiles it has

Edited June 22, 2015 by NB9457

[tmcd35]

My first thought was rouge registry entries, but this: Where does Vista/Windows 7 store Wireless Connection Information? - Super User, suggests wifi is no longer stored in the registry. Take a look in this path: c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Wlansvc\Profiles\Interfaces\ and see if there are any old entries to be deleted.

[SimpleSi]

Its a standalone Win7 pro laptop

netsh wlan show profiles givs under group and user so I think it actually has no profiles and I'm barking up the wrong tree.

 

I've tried setting manual ip but that's made no diff.

 

I'm going to try pluggin on one of my little Raspberry Pi nano dongles and try that when I come back on Friday

 

Simon

[EvLPhenom]

Had a similar issue the other day with a Toshiba laptop, think it was a L450 where it could see the WiFi and let you add the key but then wouldn't connect. Ended up updating the driver for the device as it was 3 years old. Might be worth a try?

[SimpleSi]

I've taken the laptop to another school and its connected fine.

 

All the networks are UniFi AP so that shouldn't be the issue.

 

i wonder if its a strange DHCP issue with this laptop on the orig school curric network

 

Simon

[snagrat]

I've taken the laptop to another school and its connected fine.

 

All the networks are UniFi AP so that shouldn't be the issue.

 

i wonder if its a strange DHCP issue with this laptop on the orig school curric network

 

Simon

 

Same Wifi but are they the same encryption methods?

[SimpleSi]

I did think of that as the orig curric was plain WEP but I added another SSID with same type as the admin and it still didn't work

[NB9457]

Have you tried deleting it from DHCP and ipconfig /renew too? I had similar issue once and those two steps solved it.

[SimpleSi]

Going to try that when I go back to school on the friday - also taking a nano dongle as I've spent FAR too much time on the little (*&&^^%%%%%!

[m25man]

Si, is your SSID using WPA2 AES encryption?

It should be, my guess is it's an encryption issue.

Put an unencrypted SSID on the unifi and see if that lets you in.

If it does then you know where to start.

[SimpleSi]

Tried it un-encrypted - no diff - like I say it works fine on the admin net, fine in another school (all UniFi) so I think its more a DHCP server issue at the moment

[paulellam]

I had an issue with the Tosh,s when we use our new wifi network, had to update the Atheros drivers for it to connect, prob because it was newer wif technologies involved.

[SimpleSi]

This tosh has INtel Daul-band 7260 and WU says its the latest drivers

Just tried a nano dongle in it and that worked fine.

 

When I'm bored one day - I'll play with it further but I need to just put it back into service!

 

Simon

[NB9457]

This tosh has INtel Daul-band 7260 and WU says its the latest drivers

Just tried a nano dongle in it and that worked fine.

 

When I'm bored one day - I'll play with it further but I need to just put it back into service!

 

Simon

 

Sounds like it could be DHCP? Did you try deleting it?

[crwardell]

Also might be worth restarting the WAP or MAP your connecting too, I've had that a couple of times...which fixed the issue!