How do I change my wireless password?
The only thing I could find is this, but I'm not sure what that means..
My work makes us change passwords every 120 days, so it might be a pain if I have to reimage my chromebook that often, since my password is required to log into wifi. I feel like it should be in the wireless settings, but I can't find it anywhere.
Thanks!
Posted Feb 1, 2013, 3:45 PM UTC
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Hey there, great question.
I remember this being a pretty common issue, but I'm not sure if the fix is in the latest stable build or if it is still in dev / beta.
If I remember correctly, the solution is to go into the settings menu and select "forget network", then try to reconnect and it should ask you for the credentials. This should also work if you mistype a password or the sort.
If that option isn't there yet, it may still be in the pipeline.
That's correct: you have to remove/forget the network in Settings and then reconnect to it. It will ask for your credentials again.
Source: I mistyped my wi-fi password on my Chromebook and went through this rigmarole just a few days ago.
Where is the remove/forget network? I've unchecked all the boxes for things like "always connect to this network," "prefer this network," etc. I've also tried disabling/re-enabling wifi to see if that would forget it but it didn't.
Go to Settings, click on the wi-fi network under "Internet connection", select "Preferred networks..." and then mouse over and X out the connection you want to remove/redo. (Yes, they definitely could have implemented a clearer way to accomplish that!)
Ah, thank you!
Perfect, thanks for clarifying!