Re: [maemo-users] Connecting to WIFI routers with dynamically-assigned IP addresses

[Jack Jansen]

On  23-Oct-2006, at 15:15 , Paule Ecimovic wrote: Hi, All    I am still getting the Connecting to <SSID> via a local IP address followed by a red "?" when connecting to unencrypted publically-accessible WIFI hotspots using Internet Tablet OS 2006. I didn't used to have this problem with ITOS 2005, (but there was not VOIP in that OS). Connecting over a mobile phone via bluetooth works fine, (albeit even 384 kbaud doesn't match WIFI 10baseT or 100baseT broadband.)  It doesn't seem to be router specific. Every WIFI router I tried resulted in the same state. Has anyone posted or does anyone know of a standard fix to this problem? In general I can connect to any Wifi base-station just fine, whether it is encrypted or not. But there is one exception: I cannot connect to a software basestation created by my Macintosh (System Preferences -> Sharing -> Internet, share ethernet connection with airport). Similar to your experience, everything worked fine with OS 2005. And all other machines I've tried use the Mac just fine as a basestation. The Mac console (Applications->Utilities->Console) does show that the 770 is frantically asking for an IP address, but that's all I see: no indication of whether the Mac provided one (and it apparently didn't reach the 770) or not. Note that range isn't the problem in this case (something someone else suggested): the machines are 50cm from one another. -- Jack Jansen, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack If I can't dance I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman

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