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[qpop]

Copy and pasted from my XDA developers post...thought it was worth mentioning here:

Hello, a quick fix for MoDaCos 1.3 patch if you can't get wifi working:

It's not actually the wifi that doesnt work its getting an IP from DHCP...

If you assign a static IP to your Hero it will connect just fine.

So, from your LAN connected computer open a command prompt
(in Windows XP/2000/Vista/Seven hit windows key + r and type cmd)

Now type ipconfig

You should get...

Wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection:

    Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
    Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::2537:f86e:d816:589c%11
    IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.101
    Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
    Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1

Or something similar...

Now on your Hero go to

Settings -> Wireless Controls -> Wi-Fi settings
Hit the menu key and then Advanced

Scroll down to IP settings and tick the "Use static IP" box.
Enter IP adress...
In my case as my PC's IP address is 192.168.1.101 I must use the range 192.168.1.* so enter a random number to replace *  ie:
192.168.1.123

Now set the gateway IP to whatever your "default gateway" appears in your command prompt. In my case 192.168.1.1

Now set Netmask to the same as the "subnet mask" in the command prompt,
in my case: 255.255.255.0

Now with DNS 1 and DNS 2 you have 2 options:

1) Use your routers DHCP settings (not sure if this works I haven't tried)
so set the DNS server to the same IP as the gateway (in my case 192.168.1.1)

2) KNOWN TO WORK! Set the DNS servers to a company like opendns.com:

DNS1: 208.67.222.222
DNS2: 208.67.220.220

Et Voila....You now have working wifi!

Cheers.

[PaulOBrien]

This is a CONFIRMED fix for the wifi issue... run 'adb shell' then:

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /etc
chmod 755 dhcpcd
cd dhcpcd
chmod 755 dhcpcd-hooks
chmod 755 dhcpcd.conf
chmod 755 dhcpcd-run-hooks
chmod 755 dhcpcd-hooks/95-configured
chmod 755 dhcpcd-hooks/20-dns.conf
chmod 755 dhcpcd-hooks/01-test
mount -o remount,ro -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

Just ran through this on MSN with scopes64 and it's all good!

P

[qpop]

Paul, on Aug 13 2009, 12:17, said:

This is a CONFIRMED fix for the wifi issue... run 'adb shell' then:

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
 cd /etc
 chmod 755 dhcpcd
 cd dhcpcd
 chmod 755 dhcpcd-hooks
 chmod 755 dhcpcd.conf
 chmod 755 dhcpcd-run-hooks
 chmod 755 dhcpcd-hooks/95-configured
 chmod 755 dhcpcd-hooks/20-dns.conf
 chmod 755 dhcpcd-hooks/01-test
 mount -o remount,ro -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

Just ran through this on MSN with scopes64 and it's all good!

P

Brilliant Paul, sorry was just sorting out something basic until you and your overly sized brain fixed it

[charlescro]

I was having the same problem.  Turns out that phone's DHCP Daemon was requesting an ip on my network that was already occupied (i did not have a static ip set in the phone).  

set up a packet monitor on my access point, and watched the endless loop of DHCP-REQUEST, DHCP-NACK, and realized that my phone didnt get the hint that it couldnt have the IP it wanted..... sooo


this works for me:


login with ADB shell

access root (su)

navigate to /data/misc/dhcp


rm dhcp_list


will remove dhcp preferences

Paul, on Aug 13 2009, 12:17, said:

This is a CONFIRMED fix for the wifi issue... run 'adb shell' then:

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
cd /etc
chmod 755 dhcpcd
cd dhcpcd
chmod 755 dhcpcd-hooks
chmod 755 dhcpcd.conf
chmod 755 dhcpcd-run-hooks
chmod 755 dhcpcd-hooks/95-configured
chmod 755 dhcpcd-hooks/20-dns.conf
chmod 755 dhcpcd-hooks/01-test
mount -o remount,ro -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

Just ran through this on MSN with scopes64 and it's all good!

P