Wifi On The Desire

[Guest ph0rce]

Hi there,

Sorry of this has been dealt with before but I did try & search the first few pages of the sub forum.

I've had my desire for around a month now & had no real problems with it, flashed it with a stock rom initially & then rooted it a couple of days after the root was released.

When I woke up this morning I was connected to my Wifi network but when I tried to load a webpage, nothing happens, it comes up with the stock 'Web page not available' page. I tried a couple of web pages but got the same response, I thought it might be my Wifi network but when I got to work, exactly the same thing happens.

I can connect via GPRS when I disable the Wifi with no problem.

Is this a standard error / known bug, how would I go about fixing this, not having Wifi is obviously a bit of pain! :(

Thanks in advance,

ph0rce

QUICK EDIT

I've been using Y5 Battery Saver for the past two weeks, not sure if that's relevant.

Edited May 28, 2010 by ph0rce

[Guest ksc91u]

I have a similar issue, sometimes the wifi status turn from connected to authenticating...

and I have to stop and restart wifi to fix this.

I am using WPA2/AES wifi, you?

[Guest ph0rce]

OK, installed a Terminal emulator over 3G & ran a couple of commands, including dmesg.

From the output of dmesg it looks like the Wifi connects but then something goes wrong, here's a brief transcript:

pfn: set ssid = **************

Link event

Link UP

Enter set packet filter

start to add pkt filter 101

wds: 0021 @ 01

qmi: wds: network stopped

rmnet_stop()

wds: 0022 @ ff

qmi: wds: DISCONNECTED

If this is any use, I'm happy to try other commands.

Cheers

QUICK EDIT

Just disconnected & reconnected the wifi while monitoring the output from dmesg, the above commands are definitely the reason the wifi isn't working as it happens everytime.

Edited May 28, 2010 by ph0rce

[Guest ph0rce]

I have a similar issue, sometimes the wifi status turn from connected to authenticating...

and I have to stop and restart wifi to fix this.

I am using WPA2/AES wifi, you?

I don't have that problem, all the wifi networks I connect to use MAC filtering, sorry.

[Guest ph0rce]

OK, I think I've managed to work out what the problem is; the Desire doesn't seem to be able to use DNS to look up hostnames. When I try to ping www.google.com using a terminal app, I don't get any response but when I try to ping the IP of www.google.com directly, it returns straight away. I have confirmed this by visiting the IP address in my web browser & it does bring up the Google homepage.

Is there a way to check what DNS settings my phone is currently using or failing that, force it to re-request the settings?

Cheers