Windows 8 Laptop won't let me enter wifi username and password

muttergate

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My campus has its own wifi and it requires me to input not just password but also username (my username here would be my student ID number, while password is the password i use for my campus' website accounts), in my Win10 laptop it works just fine, but in my older Win8 laptop, it just won't let me enter the password and username needed and immediately try to connect (and obviously fails).

An image from 'Laptop won't let me enter wifi username and password'. Windows 10 campus wifi login succeeds; older Windows 8 laptop fails to connect.

It still lets me input passwords for wifi that only requires that, so I was thinking if windows 8 just doesnt support wifi that also needs username to use?
 
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Sometimes older Windows 8 laptops may not be configured correctly to connect to the campus Wi-Fi networks.
  1. Firstly check your Windows 8 laptop is updated with the latest updates.
  2. From the wifi, setting forget the network. This will remove the network profile from your laptop.
  3. Restart your Windows 8 laptop and try to connect to the network again. When prompted for your username and password, enter your credentials

    Hope it works :)
You may need to get configuration information from the school. They are most likely using some form of 802.1x authentication w/radius and Win 8 is not automatically detecting the required settings.
 
It may be because of the password you are entering. It happens to me as well when I ain't use the correct password.
 
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Sometimes older Windows 8 laptops may not be configured correctly to connect to the campus Wi-Fi networks.
  1. Firstly check your Windows 8 laptop is updated with the latest updates.
  2. From the wifi, setting forget the network. This will remove the network profile from your laptop.
  3. Restart your Windows 8 laptop and try to connect to the network again. When prompted for your username and password, enter your credentials

    Hope it works :)
 
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