This has got to be a bug in OS X, and it had me pounding my head on the wall for an hour. I generated a new WPA2 password on a website that gives 63 random characters. I had done this before and it worked fine (I copy the password off the page, save it in a text file, copy it into my router's settings, then copy (command-V) it into the OS X box that asks me for the password.)
But THIS time, after I changed the router password and OS X lost my connection due to that, I tried pasting the new password into the little password popup and the computer went "BONK". It made a bonk noise and would NOT let me command-V!! I tried pasting in just *part* of the password, and I could get it to accept maybe 14 characters, but no more. Yes, I made sure there weren't characters already in there off to the left. It took me a ******* HOUR to figure out that while the WPA standard allows spaces in passwords, OS X will NOT handle spaces in WPA passwords. No explanation of this. Just "BONK". I had to go find a cable to hard-connect to my router in order to fix this problem.
Anybody know about this?
But THIS time, after I changed the router password and OS X lost my connection due to that, I tried pasting the new password into the little password popup and the computer went "BONK". It made a bonk noise and would NOT let me command-V!! I tried pasting in just *part* of the password, and I could get it to accept maybe 14 characters, but no more. Yes, I made sure there weren't characters already in there off to the left. It took me a ******* HOUR to figure out that while the WPA standard allows spaces in passwords, OS X will NOT handle spaces in WPA passwords. No explanation of this. Just "BONK". I had to go find a cable to hard-connect to my router in order to fix this problem.
Anybody know about this?