Hi all, creating a new question as I've spent days scouring the others and no luck. I have an out of the box asus v550c with windows 8. It's NOT an upgrade from 7. I can connect to my home network with ease. At my university, using wpa-psk encryption, it will not connect. There is guest network, unsecured, that I can connect to no problem, but the encrypted network, the one I need to access my class info, will not connect. The IT dept says its a windows 8 problem and there is a workaround, but they don't know it and I can't find it. I've disabled my driver, uninstalled and reinstalled the driver, tried a usb network adapter, and several other command prompt lines that have done nothing. This is really frustrating, and it's pretty bad that I seem to be the only person not getting it to work. The solution here is the university is giving away windows 7 for free to anyone that is having the problem since they're not getting any support either.

Just noticed this in my events, this is a new one: "Your computer was not assigned an address from the network (by the DHCP Server) for the Network Card with network address 0x1E71D97B88ED.  The following error occurred: 0x79. Your computer will continue to try and obtain an address on its own from the network address (DHCP) server."

Hi,

It seems like there are some issues with IPv6 compatibility of either your network adapter or your router, but nothing to really worry about. Disabling IPv6 for your current network adapter might keep the error from showing up in the Event Viewer. Network and Sharing Center -> Change adapter settings -> Right mouse click on said network adapter -> Properties -> Uncheck 'Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6)' -> Press OK. You might have to reboot your computer for changes to take effect.

In addition, your problem seems like is relate with encryption compatibility. Please try to create the network manually. Please refer to the link below for the steps.

http://www.7tutorials.com/how-connect-hidden-wireless-networks-windows-8

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And that didn't help, and when I try to create the network manually, it doesn't find the ssid at all?

According to the IT dept, it's not the router or the adapter, it's Windows 8 and the network security. Windows 8 apparently only recognizes the networks and not the security type. It worked fine at my home with WPA2 personal, but IT says they use PSK encryption and Windows 8 will not recognize it.

• Edited by DarthDaddy81 17 hours 46 minutes ago