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Hello,

My office building has been recently covered in wifi access points, and since then I've found that my n9 will regularly get itself in a state where it thinks it is connected over wifi, but has no connectivity (red arrow, no IM, timeouts etc).

After some investigation with our IT dept, I was told that different groups of APs in the building have different subnets associated with them, even though they share an SSID. My n9 should be doing a DHCP renew whenever it switches between them but isn't, so ends up non-routable. IT claim that other phones do this, and the n9 hardware is compliant, so it must be a bug in the driver.

I found out that the following script will do a DHCP renew on harmattan:
Code:
PID=`pidof udhcpc`
kill -SIGUSR1 $PID
and sure enough when i run that I see the IP change and the connection recover.

What I'm missing is a way to do automatically when the wifi AP MAC changes but the SSID doesn't. Anyone have any ideas?
 

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