Thread: RESOLVED: N9 Wifi Connectivity Problem
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rdholder is offline rdholder
2012-02-26 , 21:10
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Hi there! I received a free N9 at a software developers conference late last year. I'd like to use it instead of my old iphone which is getting long in the tooth. I do not have a sim card for the N9 yet: I am hoping to play with it awhile and see how I like it before I commit to a celphone service contract and spend money on it.

I am trying to get this N9 to talk on my wifi network at home, and the N9 seems to connect to our WAP, but it only intermittently loads webpages. I can get google to come up (sometimes) but usually it just never loads webpages.

All our other devices (2 windows pcs, 2 linux boxes, a mac mini, 2 iphones and a roku device) all talk on our network just fine. We use a D-Link DIR-655 WAP/Firewall. We have MAC filtering enabled, and I added the N9 MAC address to the permitted devices list. I also tried disabling MAC filtering so that the DIR-655 will talk to any device regardless of MAC address, but I still have the problem.

We are using WPA, and the N9 has the shared key, and when I try to connect to internet manually, it seems to connect to our wifi SSID with no error messages and I see the blue wifi active icon in the top left corner of the N9 screen. The Settings > Internet Connections screen shows "Connected".

On the DIR-655, the N9 shows as connected: I see it's MAC address in the "Connected Wifi Devices" list. I have configured the WAP to reserve 192.168.0.100 for this N9, and it seems to be getting that IP address.

Router (D-Link DIR-655) wifi connected devices status page shows:

Code:
SSID MAC Address IP Address Mode Rate (Mbps) Signal (%)

 CIVILWIFI [macaddr]6F 192.168.0.100 802.11n (2.4GHz) 39 76 

Hardware Address Assigned IP Hostname Expires

 [macaddr]:6f 192.168.0.100 RM696 Never

I try to ping 192.168.0.100 from cygwin shell on my pc, and it looks like there is no route:

Code:
$ ping 192.168.0.100

Pinging 192.168.0.100 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.0.189: Destination host unreachable.
...however netstat -rn on my pc shows a route for 192.168:

Code:
IPv4 Route Table
===========================================================================
Active Routes:
Network Destination        Netmask          Gateway       Interface  Metric
0.0.0.0          0.0.0.0      192.168.0.1    192.168.0.189     10
127.0.0.0        255.0.0.0         On-link         127.0.0.1    306
127.0.0.1  255.255.255.255         On-link         127.0.0.1    306
127.255.255.255  255.255.255.255         On-link         127.0.0.1    306
192.168.0.0    255.255.255.0         On-link     192.168.0.189    266
192.168.0.189  255.255.255.255         On-link     192.168.0.189    266
192.168.0.255  255.255.255.255         On-link     192.168.0.189    266
224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0         On-link         127.0.0.1    306
224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0         On-link     192.168.0.189    266
255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255         On-link         127.0.0.1    306
255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255         On-link     192.168.0.189    266
===========================================================================
...and I can ping other devices on 192.168 just fine.

Something is wrong somewhere. I've been fiddling with this for a few hours now, and my problem is that I can't ssh into the N9 to try to see what's going on. Since I have no internet connectivity from the phone, I can't download diagnostic tools. I looked for xterm on the N9 or some other way to get more info from within the phone, but this is a vanilla phone with just the factory installed apps. I even tried opening 127.0.0.1 in the N9 web browser hoping there might be some administrative interface, but there wasn't. The N9 appears to be operating normally in other respects.

I would think that TCP/IP should work without the phone having a sim card in it, but could that be part of the problem? Do I need to have a sim card for TCP/IP networking to work on the N9?

Any help here would be appreciated, and sorry for the length of this post!
Last edited by rdholder; 2012-02-26 at 23:00.