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My girlfriend's laptop is a brand new Lenovo Ideapad S400 Touch. I saw the free upgrade to 8.1 and thought it would be a good idea to do. But upon reboot it is no longer able to connect to the wireless network.
It has the broadcom wireless card in it. I went into the device driver settings and made sure that the settings under advanced "should" give the laptop access to the network.
Prior to upgrading from Windows 8 I was able to connect to the wireless network.
I tried downloading and installing the latest Windows 8 wireless drivers for the system. But that had no effect. I have been trying various settings and rebooting. No luck.
Now just to be clear, when I go to connect from that laptop I can see and click on the the name of the wireless network and try to connect. I am just unable to. I verified and re-verified the password for the network multiple times.
I am not sure what could be causing this at this point. Any ideas or suggestions are welcome.
Thanks, Patrick
which encryption does your Wifi uses? – magicandre1981 – 2014-01-08T18:38:26.870
WPA2 PSK if I remember correctly. Is there a known issue with that in Windows 8.1? Because that would be awesome (and just another reason to go for Linux). – Patrick – 2014-01-08T22:25:24.720
WPA2 PSK should work. WPA no longer works in 8.1. – magicandre1981 – 2014-01-09T05:12:16.507
Sorry, just got home. It is WPA2-Personal using AES encryption. I saw some information about regular WPA not being available in 8.1. But in my case that would not apply. That and it sees the network. It just can't connect. – Patrick – 2014-01-09T06:03:48.373