Wi-Fi connection is failed

[Andrey Novikoff]

Hi to all. I make upgrade my Nokia N800 and wi-fi connection, that working before now is failed. I recieve Connection Error and don't understand what happen!? Help me, please.

[brendan]

if you upgraded the OS by flashing, you may need to redo the settings for your wireless network, for example encryption keys, static IPs, DNS entries...

[Andrey Novikoff]

I upgrade my Nokia by Nokia Internet Tablet Update Wizard for Win32. My WIFI network work well before without any changes in settings. Now I recieve Connection Error.

[Milhouse]

Make sure you have correctly entered the connection key into the N800 - you may have mistyped it, it's easily done! :)

What make/model is your router? I've not seen any reports of WiFI issues introduced with the latest N800 firmware.

[Andrey Novikoff]

it's opened network. I don't know name router. :) if I make connect to this WIFI network from my notebook - all is work well. :)

[Andrey Novikoff]

Any one could help me!? Wireless connection don't work. :( I'm upgrade firmware again and result not change.

[convulted]

Try going back to the older firmware, if the problem goes away it means that the problem lies with the firmware.

[Andrey Novikoff]

Where I can find it!? Help, please.

[aung]

I had the same problem my n800.
1. my work place used free wireless, can connect my laptop. not N800.
2. always Network error!!!

Someone can fix for our problem, I really thank you very much. I am new Linux user.
Please help us

[Milhouse]

I had the same problem my n800.
1. my work place used free wireless, can connect my laptop. not N800.
2. always Network error!!!

Someone can fix for our problem, I really thank you very much. I am new Linux user.
Please help us

File a bug - provide details of your work place WiFi. Include the make, model, access point firmware, security configuration and anything else which may be relevant that enables Nokia to reproduce and investigate the issue.

[Andrey Novikoff]

Where I can find firmware storage for Nokia N800!? I have some problem with latest firmware and want "move back". Thank You.

[Milhouse]

Where I can find firmware storage for Nokia N800!? I have some problem with latest firmware and want "move back". Thank You.

http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/nokia_N800.php

[brendan]

go here...

http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/nokia_N800.php

input your WLAN ID, from under the battery cover. accept the EULA, and the two files listed on the resulting page are the original OS image, which the device shipped with, and the newest OS image.

other than that, i have one saved but i dont think i can post it here

[Andrey Novikoff]

thank you a lot. I will check it.

[Andrey Novikoff]

it's no work again. :(

[Luna]

My 770 has been doing the same lately. Oddly only with my home routers(pl).
Sooner or later it will connect. Maybe it is the same issue

[martin2952]

I've hard a lot of problems estabishing an internet connection. Tried 2 dif linksys routers and a belkin router. caN connect easily to router, but not internet. wIReless laptops no prob. besT workaround is to delete saved connection in n800 and power n800 down. then POwer off your internet modem and then power off router. power Up modem and wait for couple mins. then poWEr on router and wait a couple mins again for stuff to find itself. finally pOWer up n800 and get online. will make A new connection...type in any password etc and save. should get U online again.also change 'idle time' to 'never'at some point so the internet connection stays up. never power dOWn or leave the house again, i guess. have to do THis every time an internet connection needs to start up. why? hopefulLY someone out there knows what needs to be changed in some setup. btw, mac filterINg, dmz and firewall off makes no diff. just a total hard Power down and up of modem and router with delete of n800 connection setting and power down and up of n800 fixes prob. like starting from scraTCh. every day's a new day.

[Milhouse]

martin2952 - Just out of interest, did you type your last reply on the N800 using the virtual keyboard (https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1206)? :)

[rhouge]

Crazy coincidence, I JUST started getting the same "local-link" problem with my home router this morning. I tried your workaround and it's worked so far. Are we the only ones that this is happening to?

Until this morning I have had absolutely no problems ever connecting to my home router. I have gotten the "local-link" error when trying to connect to some open signals while in the city, but never at home. Thoughts?

[YoDude]

I'm thinkin' it may be related to signal quality. I have had that happen a number of times when trying to connect to an outside signal. It goes away when I'm right on top of it though.

[rhouge]

I'm thinkin' it may be related to signal quality. I have had that happen a number of times when trying to connect to an outside signal. It goes away when I'm right on top of it though.

Right, I get that also. In this case, however, I am sitting directly at my router. 4 Green bars.

[Texrat]

I'm thinkin' it may be related to signal quality. I have had that happen a number of times when trying to connect to an outside signal. It goes away when I'm right on top of it though.

I've noticed that as one factor of many. That's one reason I added an external antenna to my pocket linksys. No problems afterward.

[jschon]

RE:linux and link local IP address. Is the following something I can do with the
tablet?

Most modern Linux distributions already include full IPv4 link-local support. Older Linux distributions (and similar Unix systems) that don't know how to route to link-local can be manually configured to send link-local packets directly to local devices with two simple commands, as shown below. If your primary interface is not "eth0" then substitute the name of your primary interface instead.

route add -net 169.254.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 dev eth0 metric 99
route add default dev eth0 metric 99

The first command says "if you don't know better, route link-local directly to Ethernet", and the second says, "if you don't know better, then route everything directly to Ethernet". The "metric 99" means that these routes are low priority. If there's any routing table entry with a higher priority (for example, metric 0), it takes precedence. That means it's safe to add these to rc.local and have them *always* be active, because they only take effect when there is no higher priority routing table entry to tell the kernel what to do. You can put these two commands in your /etc/rc.local file to execute at startup time.

For Linux distributions that use the /etc/sysconfig/static-routes file, you can put the following two lines in that file instead of using the route commands above.

eth0 net 169.254.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 metric 99
eth0 net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 99

These two lines tell the Linux kernel that 169.254/16 is defined to always be on the local link, no matter what, and if there's some other address that you have no idea how to reach, then it's at least worth a try to see if it's reachable on the local link.

[lilnyc]

:mad: I had the same problem my n800.
1. my work place used free wireless, can connect my laptop. not N800.
2. always Network error!!!

Someone can fix for our problem, I really thank you very much. I am new Linux user.
Please help us

ThThat's the type of problem that I am having. I connect to my home router, but not a general wi-fi in public. I can't even connect to my phone's web service. This tablet is useless.

[martin2952]

I've had a tough time connecting to THE INTERNET with my home network using a linksys wrt54g using the latest firmware for all devices. All my other devices connect just fine every time. The best work around I've come up with so far to connect my n800 is to delete my home connection setting from the n800, and shut it off. Then physically unplug my router's and all other gadgets attached, including broadband modem, from the power supply. Then power on the modem and then router and then my vonage and print server boxes. When all is up and running, then I turn on my n800, let it find the network, connect, enter key etc and bingo, I'm online. I have no problem finding my router at any time. But to get online at home this is what I have to do to establish the initial link between my n800 and the internet. I suspect my vonage router as interfering as I sometimes can get online with my n800 when I unplug the vonage router instead of powering everything down. Any ideas how to configure my router to resolve this suspected conflict? Wireless internet connections elsewhere are just fine.

[geneven]

FWIW, I have a wrt54g router and a vonage linksys router and have never had any trouble accessing the internet since January when I got the n800.

[Milhouse]

Another WRT54G(S) working perfectly with an N800 (and 770) and a bunch of other devices (Wii, a second WRT54GS in client-bridged mode, iPAQ, PSP).

martin2952: What is your problem when you don't go through the routine you outlined - does your N800 manage to "see" and connect to your WRT54G, but is it that it can't establish (route) a connection to the internet? Is it a DHCP problem? Do you have IP address conflicts in your network (Vonage screwing things up?)

[rm -rf]

Any ideas how to configure my router to resolve this suspected conflict? Wireless internet connections elsewhere are just fine.

I'd suspect overlapping address ranges or multiple dhcp servers on your home network. Only one device should be routing, the rest should have routing disabled.