Veeam recovery can't connect to Wi-Fi using wpa2/wpa3

[fnu]

Hi there,

I use Veeam B&R Community Edition and stumbled over an issue several times doing a system recovery.

Albeit I maintain proper Wi-Fi drivers inside the recovery media, I cannot connect to my Wi-Fi SID using wpa2/wpa3 security.

I suspect the underlying WinPE environment is just "wpa" capable ... ?

Regards
fnu

[Gostev]

Hello! This is not a known limitation. If this was true, I would expect this to be reported by other users many times in the past 8 years? Also, please note that the recovery environment is based on the same exact modules as the Windows OS it was built from, so it should not behave any differently as it comes to the Wi-Fi connectivity. Thanks!

[fnu]

Hello, thanks for the feedback.

But I need to admit there's a limitation, or something else fishy, I booted VEEAM recovery again, just to test that, it was not possible to connect to WPA2 and/or WPA3 secured Wi-Fi network. I can see the failed logon tries in my network logs. Exact same machine running on Windows 11 does connect then flawless with 2,4/5GHz and WPA3.

[TacticallyInept]

Hello! This is not a known limitation. If this was true, I would expect this to be reported by other users many times in the past 8 years? Also, please note that the recovery environment is based on the same exact modules as the Windows OS it was built from, so it should not behave any differently as it comes to the Wi-Fi connectivity. Thanks!

Well I'll go ahead and report it too.

Booted my veeamre iso, went to connect to wifi as I didn't feel like going downstairs.. couldn't connect. Found this thread, turned off WPA3, instantly connected.

Fwiw, your response is all too similar to a response I got today while supporting an enterprise customer running Veeam.

Issue moving a job using the utility, support gave a lazy reason (permissions) but spent less than 5 minutes collecting logs from the customer and that's all the diagnosis that was done. Mover utility moved 30+ TB of VIBs and got stuck on one 4TB vib out of 10.

I find it hard to believe that fnu has the same laptop, wifi setup, etc that I do and happens to have the exact same user environment issue.

[jamieburchell]

2025 here and this does appear to be an issue still. Could not connect to my WPA2/WPA3 WiFi network using the Veeam Recovery Media - when attempting to do so it failed instantly. Changed the router to WPA2 mode, rebooted the machine I was trying to recover and it worked perfectly.

There are no issues accessing the same WiFi network in Windows in WPA2/WPA3 mode (in fact, it actually pops up with a message that WPA3 is now available).