Sometimes while trying to make the hotspot in windows 7 or windows 8 everything goes fine except the part when one tries to start the hosted network using the command “netsh wlan start hostednetwork“, I previously wrote a guide on how to make a hotspot for sharing your internet connection in windows 8 or windows 7; many people are having the problem for starting the hotspot using the start command in cmd and are getting errors like “The hostednetwork could not be started“. There is some other error reported as well, telling users that Wi-Fi authentication didn’t happen which has been covered here.
Error “Hosted Network Could not be Started” while trying to start hosted wlan network:
Following error can occur in CMD when one tries to start the wlan hostednetwork. If you got any one of those then the solution for such kind of errors has been posted below in the second heading.
The hosted network couldn’t be started The group or resource is not in the correct state to perform the request operation.
The hosted network could not be started – Any error containing this line can be resolved with the following solution
The above errors can easily be resolved using the following solution.
Solving: “Hosted network could not be started” using “netsh wlan start hostednetwork”:
There is a pretty straight forward solution for this problem. This happens because of the adapter when it is in the sleep mode, also it can be an uninvited problem which can easily be resolved by uninstalling the adapter and then reinstalling it.
- Right click the “My Computer” icon at the desktop and then open “properties“. In the left pane open “Device Manager“.
- In device manager go to the “network adapters” and find your Wireless adapter there, I am supposing here that you want to make a wifi hotspot for the internet connection sharing to a wifi enabled device.
- Right click on the wireless adapter (there must be wifi adapter word in the wireless adapter’s name) and open “properties“.
- Go to the power management tab and make it sure that you have selected the option “Allow this device to wake up the computer” also tick “Allow the computer to turn of this device to save power” then hit ok. Save the settings and get out.
- Try to start your hosted network in cmd by typing “netsh wlan start hostednetwork” if this time it starts then the solution worked but in other case if you still get the same error keep on reading.
Second solution to resolve “The hosted network could not be started”:
Again navigate to the wifi adapter in the device manager. Right click your wifi adapter under network adapters and this time click on “uninstall“. This is going to uninstall your wifi adapter driver. After you have uninstalled the driver click on the “Scan for new hardware changes” at the top pane below the file, look into the below screen shot if you can’t find the button for scanning for new hardware:
Click on the button “Scan for hardware changes” and it will reinstall your driver for the wifi adapter.
After the wifi adapter has been uninstalled and reinstalled now again start the wlan hosted network or the wifi hotspot using the command “netsh wlan start hostednetwork” this time it will start.
Update: Solve Wifi Authentication Problem on Your Device:
Some users reported us an issue of Wi-Fi authentication problem, this can be solved. Make sure you read this article.
still i am getting authentication error on my phone
Right click the “My Computer” icon at the desktop and then open “properties“. In the left pane open “Device Manager“.
In device manager go to the “network adapters” and find your Wireless adapter there, I am supposing here that you want to make a wifi hotspot for the internet connection sharing to a wifi enabled device.
Right click on the wireless adapter (there must be wifi adapter word in the wireless adapter’s name) and open “properties“.
Go to the power management tab and the option “Allow this device to wake up the computer”
i m not able to tick on this option
please help me
The same problem I do have
please help me
if you are getting authentication error then that must be because you are typing the wrong password. when you wrote the command “netsh wlan set hostednetwork mode=allow ssid=nameOfwifiHotspot key=yourpassword” what did you put where it says “yourpassword” ? you need to put the same exact letters as your password.
the authentication fails even after entering the correct password.
Hi,
I get a ‘A device is attached to the system is not functioning’ message everytime. Can you please help?
Do confirm that the Wi-Fi is turned on.
my phone is showing dat u could not connect to the wifi network because there was no response from the network
suggest me some solution Sir
hello sir , thanks in dvance , everything good my smartphone can find it but when i write my code finaly the iphone says annost connct to thiswifi…what i have to do?
Hi
I created the hotspot and able to connect to the hostednetwork from android phone, IP address is obtained, everything’s fine…but I am unable to connect to the internet from my android mobile.
I am using a broadband connection and trying to use it for sharing. can you help me resolve my issue?
Thanks