I’m trying out the live USB on a Surface Pro3. I know the wifi chip is supported as I can connect to my phone’s hotspot. I was able to connect to my home Wifi with Windows on this laptop, but attempting to connect my home wifi gives this error

The only thing I can think of is WPA vs WPA2 vs WPA3. I’ve tried changing my wifi between WPA2 and WPA2/WPA3 modes, not going to set it to WPA though.

Any tips?

  • @Llamajockey
    1•11 months ago

    Check 2.5hz vs 5ghz antennas on the router. I’ve had routers have the older 2.5hz turned off.

    And while very improbable, make sure you have enough DHCP addresses left

    • Baron Von JOP
      2•11 months ago

      Thanks for the suggestions. I did check that I have both 2.5 and 5 GHz enabled, I did have a thought of “could my router have some weird client limit?” but for some reason didn’t connect that with DHCP configuration. However it’s configured for a pool of 200 IPs and I’m well under 50. Also switching the OS shouldn’t change the MAC address so should be seen as the same client.

    • Baron Von JOP
      2•11 months ago

      Ok I’m a just making noob mistakes over here. I had reset Windows before and forgot that at some point in that process I blocked its MAC. All working now.