Wifi 2.2 Obtaining IP Problems Fix

[Guest Shauneh]

I also posted this in the 2.2 official thread for people who are reading the whole cumulative knowledge.

DISCLAIMER:

I am not responsible for anyone using this information and causing damage to their phone, although this has continued to work for me:

Problems with Wifi connection is down to some routers being completely DHCP compliant and the phones hostname using a none DHCP compliant chara (underscore to be exact), with some trial and error and the help of DJ_Steve I finally made it work with my router. The alter will be in the next update but for those who want to know how I did it, here it is:

Need the Streak rooted

Install Root Explorer (many other work)

Navigate to /system/etc/

Mount R/W

Find init.qcom.post_boot.sh

add the line "setprop net.hostname Dellstreak" (remove the " "s) just above target=

and save changes and mount R/O

This worked for me, setprop alters the hostname in the build.prop but Steve could not get it to set permanently so I found that this works.

I am not sure that this would cause any security breaches, it is running in another script that runs before full boot so aslong as you know what you are doing try it out.

Thanks guys

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Shauneh

Edited October 13, 2010 by Shauneh

[Guest jutley]

Can you show a screenshot how it should be please i want to get this wright cause i cant find my network WPA/WPA2 PSK at work a bt router i am hopeing this will fix it if you can take a screenshot of the way i should enter the text i would be very gratfull thanks.

Edited October 13, 2010 by jutley

[Guest popetodd]

I'm connected to my DLink 615 using WPA2 right now, connected without issues.

Check that you are broadcasting your SID, it would not work when I had my SID hidden on the router.

[Guest jutley]

I'm connected to my DLink 615 using WPA2 right now, connected without issues.

Check that you are broadcasting your SID, it would not work when I had my SID hidden on the router.

I cant find my router before with 2.1 it works fine if i go back to 2.1 its fine when i go to froyo it dont even show up on the wifi list its a BT router

SSID

BT Fusion-1391

WPA/WPA2 PSK

i really need to get this working i have tried erveything exept the above

[Guest Shauneh]

Jutley is your Streak rooted, if so download Android Terminal Emulator from the market place.

After this load the app and just type:

su

and hit enter this will propt you to give super permissions to terminal.

Once this has worked just type:

setprop net.hostname Dellstreak

and hit enter again.

If it allows you to connect then it was a DHCP problem :)

I will post some pics later.

[Guest Jezster]

I have a Dell Streak phone (2.1) and a BT HomeHub2, guess what ... I have the same problem. I have noticed that the Streak leases everything single address on the hub and then never connects. Also what I see is massive amounts hits in the MAC table for the phone ... xxxx.xxxx.xxxx-1 xxxx.xxxx.xxxx-2 xxxx.xxxx.xxxx-3 etc. I have told the router to always lease a specific address to the MAC but no good. I think it's BT's software in the Hub.

It can work if you reboot the Hub and phone, but that's not acceptable. I'm going to try different options to see if I can find a workaround.