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[Q] [SOLVED] Wifi tether will not connect windows 7 x64 with atheros

Any one else having issues connecting to atheros wifi on windows 7 x64?
wifi is set to allow ad-hoc
changed ssid
created password
tested on di18 stock dk28 stock viperrom nebula supernova
even stood on my head with left eye closed and a finger in my bum chanting "please work damn it"
using wifi tether for root users from market and barnacle
I got epic on day one and even the sprint app will not connect
I have no hair left to pull out
and google laughs at me when I search for this now
open to any ideas that dont involve spending money
TIA for any help!
*bangs head on wall*
EDIT: drivers are also up to date
EDIT2: Using ATHEROS AR5B91 I am also able to create ad-hoc on laptop connect phone to it and bridge connection to get better range from home wifi.
EDIT3: Sorry to keep editing but I have decided to use viperrom as my daily driver if that helps anyone help me.

Do you have intel wireless card? Try connect with a different device. My netbook connects but not my laptop.
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have you tried the new Wifi Tether w/ Infustructure mode, v3.0 it works great I am running midnightv2.4 ext4 with no issues. I have a acer win7 x64 lap and it connects, also a IBM L412 connects just fine.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=945463

I think your win7 x64 box needs to have a wifi card that supports 802.11n wifi. I have an Intel 5300 card in my system (also win7 x64, current drivers fron Intel's site) and can only connect to my Epic's network when I enable the 802.11n Mode in the network card's properties. Only issue I have is slow, sometime disconnected, VPN sessions, but non-VPN traffic works great.

citionecent said:
Do you have intel wireless card? Try connect with a different device. My netbook connects but not my laptop.
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http://sys2dev.com/android-wifi-tether-with-nexus-one-intel-wifi-fixed/
Check this article out I know it is talking about the nexus1, but you might want to try it out since it is dealing with intel wifi.

scubafun said:
I think your win7 x64 box needs to have a wifi card that supports 802.11n wifi. I have an Intel 5300 card in my system (also win7 x64, current drivers fron Intel's site) and can only connect to my Epic's network when I enable the 802.11n Mode in the network card's properties. Only issue I have is slow, sometime disconnected, VPN sessions, but non-VPN traffic works great.
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you are correct, I believe the android tether from the market will broadcast in "n" ad-hoc mode, the wifi w/ Infrastructure will broadcast in "g" mode.
I just wanted to make sure and connected and yes it was broadcasting in "g" mode.

Did you create key code and is that 13 characters vs 10 conventional.
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citionecent said:
Do you have intel wireless card? Try connect with a different device. My netbook connects but not my laptop.
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Should have put this in OP not the title but I am useing atheros ar5b91 NOT intel . Have tried this anyway still no go. Thanks for answering however
Unknown Zone said:
have you tried the new Wifi Tether w/ Infustructure mode, v3.0 it works great I am running midnightv2.4 ext4 with no issues. I have a acer win7 x64 lap and it connects, also a IBM L412 connects just fine.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=945463
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Gave that a shot still no go. Thanks for answering however
scubafun said:
I think your win7 x64 box needs to have a wifi card that supports 802.11n wifi. I have an Intel 5300 card in my system (also win7 x64, current drivers fron Intel's site) and can only connect to my Epic's network when I enable the 802.11n Mode in the network card's properties. Only issue I have is slow, sometime disconnected, VPN sessions, but non-VPN traffic works great.
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Card has b/g/n support (router is broadcasting in n) I can use my laptop to extend the range of my wifi to phone. Create ad-hoc on lappy, connect with phone, bridge connection works fine like that but thats not wifi tether.
Unknown Zone said:
http://sys2dev.com/android-wifi-tether-with-nexus-one-intel-wifi-fixed/
Check this article out I know it is talking about the nexus1, but you might want to try it out since it is dealing with intel wifi.
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Sorry should have put this in OP not title but Im on atheros ar5b91. Have tried this anyway still no go. Thanks for answering.
Unknown Zone said:
you are correct, I believe the android tether from the market will broadcast in "n" ad-hoc mode, the wifi w/ Infrastructure will broadcast in "g" mode.
I just wanted to make sure and connected and yes it was broadcasting in "g" mode.
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Thanks for answering, however I have tried infrastructure as per other post and still no go.
dito33 said:
Did you create key code and is that 13 characters vs 10 conventional.
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Yes using 13 char code changing ssid and pass was the first thing I did. I even turned off my home wifi and made the phone tether settings (ssid and pass) to same as home network. Laptop tried to connect with stored info but timed out, cleared stored info on lappy and reconnected manually still timed out.
*continues to bang head on wall*

In case it helps anyone help me I have decided to use viperrom as my daily driver as noted in OP EDIT3.
I have some friends coming by today (they both have huges net at home and I am on 50Mb/50Mb fios so I handle downloads over 25MB) for some rom-ification to their phones ( 1 moment, 2 evo's , 2 epic's , 1 intercept) I have tried 4 other epics already they have same issue. Evo's and moment/intercept have not yet been rooted so havnt been able to test them as of yet, seriously who the eff is gonna pay 40 a month for a feature built into your os, thats like microshaft trying to charge you to be able to use a mouse ( dont freak there are no new charges with windows just an example ).

d00kiejones said:
In case it helps anyone help me I have decided to use viperrom as my daily driver as noted in OP EDIT3.
I have some friends coming by today (they both have huges net at home and I am on 50Mb/50Mb fios so I handle downloads over 25MB) for some rom-ification to their phones ( 1 moment, 2 evo's , 2 epic's , 1 intercept) I have tried 4 other epics already they have same issue. Evo's and moment/intercept have not yet been rooted so havnt been able to test them as of yet, seriously who the eff is gonna pay 40 a month for a feature built into your os, thats like microshaft trying to charge you to be able to use a mouse ( dont freak there are no new charges with windows just an example ).
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Ok so I am able to tether to the moment (stock CWM and root only with moment tether) but not the others. WTF is all I can think on this one. Again TIA for any ideas. I am 2 days away from my annual reinstall of windows *crosses fingers* that may do it.

Reinstalling Windows fixed the issue thanks for the help everyone!

cannot connect properly to networks encripted with WPA/WPA2... Is this software bug?

Hello, I was experiencing constant dropouts from my trusted networks at home and at the office and, after three days of painfull trial and error
I solved the issue at home by switching the router security encription type from WPA/WPA2
to WEP. No more dropouts since but still leaves the question what we do when we need to connect to a network encrypted with WPA. It's ridiculous asking around "...Pease be so kind, could you reconfigure you router settings, I've got a buggy HTC One X and need to connect...":banghead:
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oftiklaus said:
Hello, I was experiencing constant dropouts from my trusted networks at home and at the office and, after three days of painfull trial and error
I solved the issue at home by switching the router security encription type from WPA/WPA2
to WEP. No more dropouts since but still leaves the question what we do when we need to connect to a network encrypted with WPA. It's ridiculous asking around "...Pease be so kind, could you reconfigure you router settings, I've got a buggy HTC One X and need to connect...":banghead:
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WPA2 works fine for me with no dropouts.
Maybe you have a faulty unit?

Thanks, I hope it was a faulty unit. Just returned it today and am waiting for the replacement to charge in "off" state before checking.... fingers crossed!

Mine also wont connect WPA, only WEP...which is pathetic, what about when I go to a coffee shop or other wireless hotspot....my Desire worked with WPA flawlessly...

Mine connects fine WPA2 with no dropouts.Sounds like a router problem to me.I have a Netgear N300.

ttav said:
Mine connects fine WPA2 with no dropouts.Sounds like a router problem to me.I have a Netgear N300.
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My Desire connects to the same router when its WPA, so why not my HTC one X?
I updated router firmware to latest rom, tried all number of WPA/PSK/WPA2 or both, set a diff channel, but no.. any device should connect using the password set for WPA, so laptop, netbook, my N95 8gig and HTC Desire can, but the One X cant?.... not good.

Mine is working fine with Wep at home and Wpa 2 at work, i did have a problem with Wep at home with a Galaxy Nexus/Note where both phones could not obtain a ip adress. Still could not figure out why...
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oftiklaus said:
Thanks, I hope it was a faulty unit. Just returned it today and am waiting for the replacement to charge in "off" state before checking.... fingers crossed!
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Hey so was it a faulty unit?

WIFI Data freezes and locks up my router

Hi All,
I have a D-Link DSL-2740BR N 300 modem router. When I connect my HOX to it's Wifi I get data for about 10 seconds and then it totally locks up. I still have a connection and good signal, but no data come up or down. If I now leave it connected after about 10 minutes all wifi data on my router stops working so no other devices can use it. As soon as I disconnect my HOX from the wifi data returns to all other devices!
I have set the channel so it's not on automatic selection and I have given my HOX a specific DHCP lease, other than that I can't seem to change any other settings on my router that I can see would influence this.
Does anyone have ANY hints coz I don't feel like forking out for a new router and this is just ridiculous!
Thanks in advance.

this happens at work, my hox connects to a linksys wag120n, which is acting as a wap, its connected to another netgear prosafe router.
sometimes, not always, when the hox disconnects, it stops the internet working for all connected devices, even if they aren't using the wireless router at all! then i have to reboot the wireless router, not the other one, to make everything work again.
it doesn't do this at home, it's weird, i've tried playing around with the router settings but no difference... really annoying problem

Did you try to chane WPA to WEP encryption method? It may help. I had the same kind of problem with my Zyxel router.

Melodycd said:
Did you try to chane WPA to WEP encryption method? It may help. I had the same kind of problem with my Zyxel router.
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I haven't tried that. I have had issues with ROMs on my old phone (X10) that it couldn't connect to WPA, but I didn't even think that could be a problem as it does actually connect... It's worth a try I guess, but I think I'm gonna have to try buying a new router...
Cheers.

lawrence750 said:
this happens at work, my hox connects to a linksys wag120n, which is acting as a wap, its connected to another netgear prosafe router.
sometimes, not always, when the hox disconnects, it stops the internet working for all connected devices, even if they aren't using the wireless router at all! then i have to reboot the wireless router, not the other one, to make everything work again.
it doesn't do this at home, it's weird, i've tried playing around with the router settings but no difference... really annoying problem
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Yes it is a really annoying problem. I do know that it happened less often with the original ROM & Kernel, but who am I kidding? There's no way I'm going back from CM9!

ive tried a factory reset on the wireless router, will report back whether it helps or not.

Melodycd said:
Did you try to chane WPA to WEP encryption method? It may help. I had the same kind of problem with my Zyxel router.
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Ahh! Thank you! That totally fixed it! I can't believe that could even be a problem... Do you think it's the phone side, or the router side that's having issues with WPA?
Thanks so much!

btw, a factory reset didn't help, however, i have changed my 'Network Mode' option to 'G-only' instead of 'Mixed'
so far, so good, it's been a day or two now, one x happily connecting and disconnecting as i go in and out of office, and the internet hasn't gone down yet!!
glad to hear you got yours working properly as well RaVe-N

lawrence750 said:
btw, a factory reset didn't help, however, i have changed my 'Network Mode' option to 'G-only' instead of 'Mixed'
so far, so good, it's been a day or two now, one x happily connecting and disconnecting as i go in and out of office, and the internet hasn't gone down yet!!
glad to hear you got yours working properly as well RaVe-N
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Yeah cheers. Glad you fixed yours up too mate. Weird that g only fixed yours but not mine hey...

Cheers guys help me fix my network. I had a problem with my broswers failing to load, YouTube videos were jumping cutting out or buffering, pc everytime I unlocked my phone internet would disconnect everyones internet connection, ps3 was crashing non stop but now everythink is back to normal I was using wep already as I had the same problem with my x10 and had to change WiFi channel and downgrade to G & B mixed mode as my router don't have settings for G only it also seems to have fixed my turtle beach px5 headset every time I downloaded a big file via WiFi audio would completely cut out making them useless when people used WiFi in my house now its a lot better
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canna666 said:
Cheers guys help me fix my network. I had a problem with my broswers failing to load, YouTube videos were jumping cutting out or buffering, pc everytime I unlocked my phone internet would disconnect everyones internet connection, ps3 was crashing non stop but now everythink is back to normal I was using wep already as I had the same problem with my x10 and had to change WiFi channel and downgrade to G & B mixed mode as my router don't have settings for G only it also seems to have fixed my turtle beach px5 headset every time I downloaded a big file via WiFi audio would completely cut out making them useless when people used WiFi in my house now its a lot better
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Nice good to hear it's better now
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Verizon G3 and Mobile Hotspot issue with Windows 8.1

So here is my problem and I hope someone can shed some light.
When I turn on the hotspot feature on my G3, my LG Gpad sees it no problem as well as other devices that I have. However, my windows 8.1 computer doesn't see it. My daughter has an iPhone 5s and when she turns her hotspot on my computer sees it and I can connect.
My computer is the Lenovo Ideapad Yoga 11S
The question is, is it the G3, Windows 8.1 or the Lenovo that is causing the problem?

mched said:
So here is my problem and I hope someone can shed some light.
When I turn on the hotspot feature on my G3, my LG Gpad sees it no problem as well as other devices that I have. However, my windows 8.1 computer doesn't see it. My daughter has an iPhone 5s and when she turns her hotspot on my computer sees it and I can connect.
My computer is the Lenovo Ideapad Yoga 11S
The question is, is it the G3, Windows 8.1 or the Lenovo that is causing the problem?
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Go into the hotspot settings and make sure you are using channel 1-11. My guess is you are using a higher 5GHz channel, and your Windows 8.1 computer is 2.4GHz only.
EDIT: I looked at your laptop specs, and it is indeed 2.4GHz only.

geoff5093 said:
Go into the hotspot settings and make sure you are using channel 1-11. My guess is you are using a higher 5GHz channel, and your Windows 8.1 computer is 2.4GHz only.
EDIT: I looked at your laptop specs, and it is indeed 2.4GHz only.
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Thanks for responding... Did what you suggested, changed to 2.4 with channel set to auto, it can now see my hotspot. However, it has a hard time connecting and when it does, it's limited.
Any thoughts?

Settings>more>mobile hotspot>setup. Scroll to frequency and press window.. Choice of 2.4 or 5 ghz

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Settings>more>mobile hotspot>setup. Scroll to frequency and press window.. Choice of 2.4 or 5 ghz
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Thanks, figured that part out and changed it, now it finds my hotspot but has a hard time connecting. When it does, is limited connectivity.

mched said:
Thanks, figured that part out and changed it, now it finds my hotspot but has a hard time connecting. When it does, is limited connectivity.
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Does your phone say that your laptop connected, or does it sit at 0 devices connected? On your laptop, go to the network connections page and view the IP address you're getting. Is it a 169 address?

geoff5093 said:
Does your phone say that your laptop connected, or does it sit at 0 devices connected? On your laptop, go to the network connections page and view the IP address you're getting. Is it a 169 address?
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Phone does show as having 1 device as being connected. IP was blank, I refreshed it and now the IP is a 192.168 and is actually working!!!!

mched said:
Phone does show as having 1 device as being connected. IP was blank, I refreshed it and now the IP is a 192.168 and is actually working!!!!
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Awesome! Hopefully it continues to work

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Awesome! Hopefully it continues to work
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Thanks for your help.

Wifi Prob with D-Link Router

I have D-Link DIR-605L (802.11n) router at home and everything was working fine. Suddenly since past few days, my N3N is not getting connected to wifi router properly. I have to disable and enable wifi on phone 4-5 times atleast and then it connects automatically. On the same router other android, iphone and windoes phones and laptops connects properly to same router.
I thought there is prob with my phone, but the same phone works properly in office. It connects and works with no issues on office wifi.
I have already tried below mentioned troubleshooting steps
- factory reset router and phone both
- tried various security settings (WEP, WPA, WPA2 etc)
- upgrading os on phone and router both
- enable 802.11g mode, mix mode etc.
What could be issue? and any way we can fix this.

arinjayw said:
I have D-Link DIR-605L (802.11n) router at home and everything was working fine. Suddenly since past few days, my N3N is not getting connected to wifi router properly. I have to disable and enable wifi on phone 4-5 times atleast and then it connects automatically. On the same router other android, iphone and windoes phones and laptops connects properly to same router.
I thought there is prob with my phone, but the same phone works properly in office. It connects and works with no issues on office wifi.
I have already tried below mentioned troubleshooting steps
- factory reset router and phone both
- tried various security settings (WEP, WPA, WPA2 etc)
- upgrading os on phone and router both
- enable 802.11g mode, mix mode etc.
What could be issue? and any way we can fix this.
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Any help team pls?

Try changing wifi connection security to WEP or WPA etc
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Evil Eye said:
Try changing wifi connection security to WEP or WPA etc
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I have tried all. Even without any security settings i face this issue.
My phone was with Samsung service center for 4 days and they said there is no WiFi issue at all. They are able to connect to other DLink routers with no issues. I also got my Dlink router checked, and all other devices are able to connect to my Wifi router with no issue... ant understand what could be the issue

Wow.. that's kinda strange..
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Yes it is.. am last one month i have been trying many things.... its just all so weird .....

i am also hving same prblm with my note 3 neo..did u get any soln for it? if yes then do let me know.